Re: Way down the rabbit hole

To be Frank (Joe)

I think a chat about the history of the Electric Guitar (as opposed to the
history of the Electric Piano) would be a welcome break in this list ;-)

However I shall let the matter rest, and go back into my rabbit hole...

- Maurice

I'm not even sure where to take this particular question, Maurice. A
single-user MS-DOS machine compared to an IBM i? How do these even
compare? One runs an enterprise, the other runs (maybe) a store front.
How do you compare these?

For starters they have a CPU, memory and a hard disk (a bit like a

computer

I suppose), and then they obviously have an operating system, that is how

I

would compare them.

And then you go on to completely ignore my comparison... <grin> And
that being the case, I decided to just re-name the thread and then it
can die a peaceful, off-topic death. <smile>

It's interesting that you
bring up music, because multimedia machines now require 64-bit Windows
because they need more than 4GB of memory to run efficiently. But come
on - why do you need a gigabyte of RAM to run Office? Just wondering.

Sorry I disagree, the majority of pro recording (PC) applications run on
windows XP with maybe 2GB of ram, indeed many a recording pro will advise
you to use XP (you don't need 64 bit at all)

Sorry I should have been a bit more specific. I was talking about
multimedia, which includes video as well. Full video rendering really
requires upwards of 4GB to be efficient. But I did get that information
second-hand from my brother, who's one of those weird guitarists. In
fact, he's even stranger, he's a bass player <chuckle>.

Joe