From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,54e6f3bfd18d2769 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@acm.org Subject: RAM size, was Re: Pointer function parameter Date: 2000/11/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 689685654 References: <874s1oln12.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 973366437 24.20.190.201 (Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:33:57 PST) Organization: @Home Network NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 11:33:57 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > > are getting closer and closer to infinite-sized memories all the time, > computers will be shipped with RAM so big that they can't touch every > storage location during their lifetime. For at least the last 40 years the "typical" RAM size of a system has been fairly close to the amount its CPU can access in one second.