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screen shot of memory usage by app, showing Firefox using over 18GB of RAM

I also don’t understand why every chat app needs 1GB of RAM to itself.

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      2 days ago

      Well having 64GB RAM has been a huge boost to how fast everything feels so this checks out.

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          I don’t remember those days. I used Windows 3.1 (with DOS for games) at a relatives house, but it was too early for me to understand about the hardware. We also had some Apple computers at school with I think 5 1/4" floppy disks but again I didn’t really get technically savvy until I was older.

          The first PC we had at home was Windows 95. I seem to recall we had a pretty decent amount of RAM. Maybe 32MB or perhaps even 64MB.

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            I used an Apple II at school, but that was already the fourth computer I worked with. The first was a one-board computer with an LCD and one kilobyte of RAM, the second was a TI99/4A with 16 KB, and the third was a C64. I never had a PC running Windows as a main OS, but one of my earlier PCs had win95 as an alternative boot for gaming only.