>>>>>For the price interestimg just by the fact of dual boot plus SD card - but I am pretty certain this is one of the Frankenstein CPUs, 64 bit enabled but only able to connect to 2GB of physical.
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>>>>Yep - http://ark.intel.com/products/80274/Intel-Atom-Processor-Z3735F-2M-Cache-up-to-1_83-GHz
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>>>>Intel-64 and VT-x enabled, but only 2GB RAM - more Franky than most :-/
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>>>Hmmm, trying to visualize a couple of 64-bit Win VM's running in 2 GB of RAM
>>>(some H later)
>>>yupp, more Franky fits the description ;-))
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>>Some lightweight Linux VMs maybe, but not Windows (unless XP or earlier).
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>>Amazing what you get used to. I remember shelling out $1,500 on 32MB (yes, megabytes) of RAM for a computer to run NT 3.51. At that time the mightiest workstations had around 512MB, a gig or more was unfathomable.
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>Can top that: 8MB of RAM first used with OS/2 in text mode, then as Dos/extended, because EMS was a cripple -
>and that machine was a full 32 bit 386 going for 14000 DM, probably ~6000$ in the eighties.
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>Before that 4MB to be directly adressed on 68000, but much cheaper as it was an Atari ~ 1000$
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>Terra incognita everywhere, as I had to write more than half of the RAM overlaying DB functionality myself

I had one client that needed to upgrade an IBM PS/2 model 70 from 2 to 4MB (or maybe it was 1 to 2MB). That price made me gasp, $1,200 (1989)

When I worked as an engineer in a manufacturing plant our LAN server was a Compaq Deskpro 386/16 running NetWare 286. That was $12,000 in about 1987. Because it supported the production line, per standing orders we had an identical cold spare in stores that never got used.

Back in my CP/M hobbyist days I paid $200 for 64K of 200ns static RAM. That works out to $3,200 per MB (~ 1983).

Dunno if you're seeing the same thing but RAM prices have gone up (at least in C$ terms) over the last 1 - 2 years. A couple of years ago I spent about C$95 for 16GB for my main dev workstation. Today, it's nearly double that.