Voice of Dissent I agree, very knowledgable and clearly spoken. This video took me back a few years, I had a ZX81 when they were new.... the intermitent (Solved with a bit of Blue Tack) RAM extention box problem too. 😆

we had an old dutch technology show on tv in the 80's called "wondere wereld" where an astromomer explained new things in computer technology in an accesible way, which this show reminds me a bit of in the way things are presented. although he (Chriet titulaer) guy covered a much wider array of technology, i really miss that kind of of stuff these days in the way it is covered, especially the excitement the man had for these new things, you could just feel it, and it rubbed off positively on others. sadly that man died last year, he was a real staple to bringing awareness of technological innovation to the public in an understandable and exciting way, some even found it necessary to taint his death with anti-corporate politics surrounding his tight connections with philips. i guess doens't mean much to others since all his work is in dutch, but just reminiscing about cool tech shows. but i seem to have a preference towards british youtubers as they're usually telling it without overselling it, it just feels more natural and personal that way. (i think europeans on average tend to talk a lot about technical details, which is more likely to teach you something in the process) i could could totally see this being something on tv, although who still has airplay time for sincere informational stuff on the tele these days?... :(

"Public television" is 20th century technology. What's more important is to teach people to stop using and funding it and get with the times.

This would imply that television still carries programming not aimed at barely conscious, drooling masses, unfortunately.

YES Yes yes: PBS should think about a STEM program for kids

Love that last line! :) Interesting how the human brain can be both volatile and non-volatile storage . . .

ExplainingComputers Exactly that! Fascinating!

Agreed, it's both refreshing and accurate to have a non-political fact based explanation. Non-political i.e. non-corporate biased standards explanation.

i know it i love his videos

I agree!

Thanks. I hope that many people find this useful.

... or "Windows finally has enough swap space!"

And if he ran Linux. He'd break the speed of light!

Hahahaha - he no longer cares about the 2 million instances of Chrome in his task manager. :D

and he uses this computer to look at pictures of cats.

Well here we are ddr5 just launched and scalped already

Thanks.

A great story. Thanks for sharing here. In some ways computers were more amazing years ago.

Welcome aboard!

@@ExplainingComputers , thanks man you explain really well:)

A whole six!

Actually, 8 or even 10 could be possible, if your terabyte fiber network supports it.

@@LordDragon1965 That is just madness!

And if you use the new Microsoft Chromium based Edge replacement, you'll be able to open 6 tabs to download 6 different browsers to replace it... and never open it again.

That was really funny. I honestly laughed out loud and drew attention. Good on you.

Thanks for this. :) However, I'd argue that my style is "sleek", if certainly traditional. "Non-sleek" I would argue is the jump-cut fest delivered by many KZfaqrs who cannot even be bothered to do re-takes or B-roll so that their final shots will smoothly (sleekly!) cut together. I'm very much in the Walter Murch school of editing, which is based on an understanding of visual perception.

@@ExplainingComputers With that I would agree! Your videos actually are quite sleek, in a more traditional way. Which, in my opinion, is better for portraying the information.

How the world has changed . . .

Is 24KB enough?

Thanks.

Thanks for your kind feedback.

Thanks.

This is true -- note that in the intro segment I describe *modern* RAM as volatile (ie not all RAM!). The script for this video had to be very carefully written! :)

Absolutely concur. Thoroughly enjoy.

Yup me too!

I may indeed do a follow-up. A RAM drive video is indeed a nice idea. Noted!

@@ExplainingComputers thanks heaps chris, it has frustrated me to no end searching for ramdrive uses and how to's etc.

Looks like you need your memory refreshed. 😁

Thanks. :)

Noted!

Hu hu

Good ideas for a future video -- noted with thanks.

Hello from the UK! :)

Thanks.

Seasons greetings to you too! :) And to everybody here.

Thanks. :)

I "overlooked" on purpose -- there was already an information overload in this video. :) I checked "chip creep" (like everything else in this video) from several sources, but totally take your point on the layout issue. Ultimately, any video like this is far more an issue of what to leave out as much as what to leave in. Some early drafts of the script her ran over 40 minutes, nd ultimately whatever I included or did not include here I could not please everybody.The purpose of the intro (history) sections was to provide context and engagement with content less dry than the tech/specs that follow. And this is why I did not get into the while 8/16/32/64 bit thing.

@@ExplainingComputers No need to explain, of course. I do take your point about information overload! :) An excellent and nicely explained video in any case. I always look forward to your videos. Keep up the awesome work!

Thanks. :)

never mind... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/praVdrGjs7rWY58.html

Many thanks. :)

Thanks for watching for so long, appreciated. :)

Wasn't that the memory that used actual Mercury as it's storage medium? Even my 486 with it's SIMMs was more convenient, by several orders of magnitude

In 1968 I worked in a place with an emergency generator. Each wednesday they tested the emergency generator and the mercury delay lines "forgot" what they knew. Each one had to be reloaded. The same thing happened when they switched the generator off after the test.

Ya got that right. Scientist invented the Internet. But, Porn made it a service we now can't live without.

Yeah...unless some of these "young people" end up coding in Assembly PIC, MPS430 and Atmel microcontrollers or for the heck of it try to code for devices using older known processors (Zilog Z80, MOS 6502, Motorola 68000, ect.) or different architectures (like MIPS).

Suffrage? What has politics got to do with computers? I think you mean "suffering", it has a completely different meaning.

Sufferage: a series of prayers

@@Robb403 but you put "suffrage"... Which is not the same thing. It was just a silly joke on my part, don't worry about it 😉

That was my first thought. "Terabytes of RAM will let Microsoft program windows even worse"

Look out for my new PC build series, starting at the end of January 2019.

Latency gets not worse.

Generally yes, but between generations there is often a retrograde period where the previous generation outperforms the first available memory of the next generation.

A typo indeed. I was messaged earlier. I am kicking myself! :)

@@ExplainingComputers No problem though, the video is still great 🏆

Good point on the colour. I will be doing a build series in early 2019 with a clear side panel! :)

Thanks Mark.

Thanks for your kind feedback. Look out for the video after next on retro storage.

@@ExplainingComputers I'll be looking forward to it. 😊

That is a myth. He never said so.

"six or 9 times order of magnitude" What do you mean with that?

Maybe so... Given enough time, on Earth, sooner or later, everything becomes a myth... even a truth :) Maybe he had never stolen computer time and the fact is just a myth... Maybe DR-DOS never existed and it's just a myth although I used it... Maybe a terrible kid really locked himself in a hotel room and in just two weeks he wrote a complete OS... Heck, the fact that he is the richest mythical character is also but a myth... :D (the one that got under the sheets with the big blue who at that time had a hot product with certain hardware limitations)... Lucky for us, nowadays there are more than enough alternatives...

@@nadirjofas3140 More or less, MS-DOS that spawned from who knows where, was limited to 1MB... Three orders of magnitude we have 1GB... In this video, Explaining Computers talks about TB of RAM (that's 6 orders of magnitude over 1MB (1024*1024) or even Petabyte of RAM (that is 1024TB)... 1024*1024*1024 (3 orders+3 orders+3 orders=simple math) Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta...

@@betta67 Ok