And Eye on Technology

So it happened, no fan fair no hype it just happened when nobody was looking. What exactly am I talking about, allow me to explain, please be patient.
In 95 Microsoft released Windows 95 a drastic improvement from there first few attempts at windows. This was far more intuitive than Windows base, DOS (Data Operating System). 95 Seek to change all that, the term multi tasking as a trademark of the new world that we were approaching.
At the time of 95 being release computers came standard with 8 megs of ram. The average price per meg is 100 and you had to buy them in multiple of twos. Windows 95 allowed for programs to use more than the traditional 640kb or the new items at 1 to 2 megs. Within 2 years you could get an additional 8 megs of ram for under 40 dollars, as opposed to the 8 hundred dollars that it would have cost a two years prior.

As the more versions of Windows came to be over the next few years. Improvement to the Operating System allowed for more Ram that was able to be used. Mind you we are still on the 32 bit operating system. Now getting a gig of ram would cost me under 100 dollars.

Now the event that happened. Microsoft announced that the 64 bit Windows XP and 2003 server was released. Currently under the 32 bit architecture the average user has 256 to 512 megs. Mind you we are at a maximum of 3 gigs of Ram. WTF When would we ever need to use that much Ram? Well, now we do, under this new windows 3 gigs will be considered minimum. Put this into perspective. My first Pentium's hard drive was 400 megs. My second drive was 1 gig. My father thought that my ram was my hard drive and couldn't understand what I needed all that space for. Now I have a machine that has 1.5 gigs of Ram, 2.4 megahertz P4 100 gigs of storage (Which I have filled). So what is next, what will my next upgrade be. Will it be several years from now when I have a 6 gigahertz P6 with 5 gigs of Ram and a 250 gig hard drive. What would I ever need all that for. The revolution is just begining, hold on, a need will come.