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by pathartl 10 days ago
"basically NT 3.1" is an incredible over exaggeration. Total RAM capacity has stagnated over the years and subsequent generations of DDR have backed speed instead.

8GB in a computer was considered good in a consumer performance machine in 2010. 16 years before that was 6-8MB.

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What seems like an over–exaggeration to you?

I agree that the time periods you mention saw different growth patterns and I would blame the stagnant software for the situation —it has slowly grown into the hardware with no real feature improvement.

Even the current path to exponential RAM increases is a naked king —1T models are only slightly better than 1B models at following instructions.