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> only had 64k on it and I may be old but I'm not that old. I think it
> makes much more sense for anyone, especially those who use VR, to buy as
> open ended a system as possible because I think it is impossible to
> predict what the real RAM requirements of software even a year from now
> will be.
*** This is true. That being said, I might say that the motherboard is
only about $150 of the cost of the computer as a whole. I got a TX-based
motherboard about a month ago. At the time, I didn't know about the
memory limitations of this type of board. Still I'm fairly satisfied.
I figure that 64 megs will hold me for about two years. After that,
this particular MB can get retired to be a comm server or something.
Hopefully the PCI bus will still be around by then, and I won't have to
retire the video card.
I guess my point is that the march of computer technology is such that
there are no guarantees. If you jump on at the leading edge - say by
buying a high-speed Pentium II system with all the trimmings - you pay
a premium. On the other hand, if you buy something really low end,
really cost-effective, it won't be useful as long. I decided that
a 233-MHz Pentium with 64 megs was a good compromise for this month.
- Jerry Kaidor ( jerry@@tr2.com )
( who once spent $2400 on a TRS-80 model I )
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