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i can see 40gb of ram.. only because there will be some kind of large neural network predicting the code you're going to write. Pretty much programming in the future will be writing a paragraph of what you want in non technical terms, and the neural network will generate it. 
of course that would be no fun
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
-Fred Brooks
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Nikola Knezevic wrote: Bill Gates once said: "You will never need more than 64MB of RAM"
and shortly after that his software was the first that needed more.
The correct amount of memory from the quote (and I remember the quote) was 640KB. PCs which could host and use an entire megabyte or more had just come on the market (the Compaq 386).
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is that 64bit? how are you making full use of the 4gb
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
-Fred Brooks
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No, it is only WinXP 32Bit - so I can get use of about 3,2 GByte 
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My host/physical computer has 4GB.
And I am using Virtual Machine (Sun xVM Virtual Box, free) to setup the development environment.
The Virtual Box has 1-2GB depends on the project size.
haha
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More than memory I find the greatest thing for development is screen real estate.
1x24" landscape
1x24" portrait
1x20" square
1x42" Living room TV
Placing all the VS pallets on the 24" landscape opens up the 24" portrait for the code writing window. The other screens give plenty of room to have reference materials open such as PDF or web page.
This also lets me test in a VMware virtual Windows2k, WinXPsp2, WinVista. This is where more memory would be nice: running the virtual machines while keeping everything else open.
-Clint-
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And if you don't have Visual Studio installed, but click an option from the first question before reading clearly... how the hell do you un-select it? :/
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On my Vista boxes I really want 3 Gig of RAM for 32 bit work. If I had the $ and wasn't ashamed I would bring up everyone with 8-12 Gig on a 64 bit box!
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I've in one dev box 1GB, second dev 2GB at home 3GB. Need to bring the office machines to 4GB at least.
Yusuf
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4GB does not seem to be enough. I've got a 4G machine (Vista) at work with Sql2005 and VS2008 plus MS Office installed. After start with only whatever Windows services and outlook on, 50% are gone.
TOMZ_KV
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Tomz_KV wrote: I've got a 4G machine (Vista)
there you have the source of all your problem 
Yusuf
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Standard is 1 GB at my company for said config, but I got the upgrade because I had to use IntelliJ IDEA  back then, for a while.
Cheers,
Vıkram.
"if abusing me makes you a credible then i better give u the chance which didnt get in real" - Adnan Siddiqi.
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VS 2005 with 4Gb ( XP 32 /3G), VS 2008 under Vista with 4Gb of DD3... and 2 x 8Gb dedicated USB memory stick...it helps and it's cheap..
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The other one is a family PC with may get replaced soon - it has 2 GB of virtual memory. (not kidding) And it's slow as heck.
Just in case, the VS08 machine has a dual-core, 3Ghz Pentium D, and the other is a single-core, 2.4Ghz Celeron.
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.
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So I voted "512MB or more"
:b
Faith is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see;
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency!
-Emily Dickinson
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blond? 
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For around $850US everyone got a new machine with 750GB or better HD, 4GB (PC6400 DDR2) and a 2.6GHz dual core processor. We are using 32 bit XP SP3 and have VC6, .net 2003 and .net 2005 since we get VC and Office under our yearly academic license.
John
modified on Monday, August 4, 2008 2:10 PM
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I get virtual memory errors all the time - sometimes even my sqlclient crashes with the message "not enough memory to complete operation". I never knew that error existed until now (btw, I'm not even using my local sql instance - that's using a remote instance - aaarrrggg!). I have asked and asked for more ram, but no luck. I have to shut down my web browser and VS instances all the time to clean up and start over. I even tried taking extra ram from machines of employees who recently left - but it wasn't compatible with my machine. So not only does everyone else have MORE ram than I do, but its better ram!
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Funny, Vista and apps like VS, Skype, Pidgin, Live Mail, Norton, and Sidebar run in 1GB smoothly. At the same time.
Chuck Norris has the greatest Poker-Face of all time. He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.
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My main dev box is a machine running Windows XP SP2 and VS 2008. 256 Mb of DDR2 RAM. Shame.
(My main Linux box, on which I run Code::Blocks, has 1 Gb of memory. I don't develop as much on Linux though)
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It's swapping like mad too.  
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