[Elecraft] KX3 Mac Utility - I Give Up

[Fred Jensen]

On 5/23/2013 3:19 PM, Joel Black wrote:

> Trying to load both, one right after the other, I watched my free memory
> drop to 1.31GB and then the app just quit.

The Apollo Guidance Computer, which got us to the moon multiple times, 
had 36 kilowords of program ROM [literally hard *wired* core memory], 
and 2 kilowords of volatile core memory, all 16 bit words [15 
data+parity no floating point], and it did "rocket science calcs" all 
the way to the moon and back.

The Win 7 machine I send on here has 8 GB of RAM and one terabyte of 
disk spread over two 500 GB drives.  Admittedly, it has a somewhat more 
visually appealing user interface than the DSKY the astronauts used, and 
it handles the Internet very nicely, something that was just being 
invented at the end of the 60's, but I really do wonder where all the 
memory has gone.  I wonder sometimes, not often, what Windows and the 
applications do with all of it.

Salesman in the Sprint store was regaling me with the amount of memory 
in the various phones he wanted to sell me.  I was sort of still at, 
"They have HOW much memory?"  I don't know what the various Elecraft 
radios and accessories have, I do know that new features come out 
periodically and none of the old ones go away, so apparently they 
designed in some "mission creep."

73,

Fred K6DGW
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