Memory Usage
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I'm doing real  work at the moment.  It's a light one  - preparation of
LaTeX slides  for my teaching. Thus  I use rather simple  software: the
Vim 6 (a  Motif GUI version), the  XFig (with the Xaw3D  GUI), the XPdf
(it uses the  Motif, too), a bunch of terminals  (SGI's own XWSH ones),
the Firefox (just to browse the Mastodon) and few other things like the
GQView picture viewer. I use my SGI  O2 computer for that (it has a 250
MHz R10000 MIPS CPU).

For all this stuff  I need under 500 MB of RAM as  about 550 MB of 1024
MB available is still free. And the computer is fast enough.

If I  will try  to don on  a contemporary ARM  Linux computer  then its
whole RAM will  be uses (2 GB in  my case) and I will not  able to work
faster. It has eight CPU cores (4x 2.0 GHz, 4x 1.5 GHz).


What a progres after 30 years of computer hardvare development! ;-)