Comment by denysvitali
15 hours ago
The juxtaposition between this and "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder" is probably the best one I've seen in a long time
15 hours ago
The juxtaposition between this and "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder" is probably the best one I've seen in a long time
To be fair, Voyager 1 doesn't have to render 47 "congratulate your connection" notifications at the same time.
With autosuggestions to click so you don't even have to type anymore!
This right here! I commented about that in that thread, it's like: This 5G calls drops, LinkedIN uses GB's of memory, my fridge needs an update to get the light on but Voyager 1 is out there on 69kb.
That was probably an incredible amount of memory back then. And it probably cost $1,000 USD for 1KB. Who knows how much radiation-hardened space memory was. 10 times that?
In consumer space, 69 KB of RAM (138 x 4 kbit chips) would cost around $1700 70s dollars for the entire package, ~$10k in modern dollars.
Radioationed hardened for space though — $50k-$100k in 70s dollars, roughly the price of a Silicon Valley house back then - $300k-$600k in today's money.
consumer space and space space chips.
Wouldn't they just put a lead plate around the computer? That can't cost 100k in 70s
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We now have simple chat apps capable of doing almost anything LinkedIn does while using under 100 MB of RAM.
A probe collecting data in space takes <70 kB of memory. I fail to see how this statement should make me feel happy
Space is mostly empty there is not much interesting stuff to collect and who’s going to buy that data
LinkedIn on the other hand has user behavior, computer details etc. that’s a lot of interesting data.
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As someone was pointing out in a thread the other day about memory usage, a lot is fonts and images.
EDIT: Just mind boggling to get d/v'ed for pointing out voyager doesn't have to render fonts or images...
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I remember when your computer had 128MB of ram and could still run an entire desktop OS, web browser and chat app at the same time.
I’m guessing you mean “does” in the sense of a user-facing feature.
I’ve heard that LinkedIn searches for several hundred known browser plugins to identify potential abusive users. If the “simple chat apps” aren’t doing that, then it’s apples-to-oranges.
Voyager 1 is several orders of magnitude simpler as a product so it makes sense that it uses several orders of magnitude less memory.