Lots of software? Like linux, webbrowsers, etc? Arguably all software could run in 128 megs, especially if RAM was "swap" and people stopped obsessing over their javascript UIs.
It still seems a bit far off now, but come on, in 5 years or less we'll see 1GB, that gigabyte level is a huge implicit marketing number.
Might be a harbinger of a new movement in computing: all-cache computing, and reworking OSs and slimming down libraries and other things to fit into cache. It might be the only shot at getting a slimdown revolution going before moore's law really stalls in a couple decades.
It still seems a bit far off now, but come on, in 5 years or less we'll see 1GB, that gigabyte level is a huge implicit marketing number.
Might be a harbinger of a new movement in computing: all-cache computing, and reworking OSs and slimming down libraries and other things to fit into cache. It might be the only shot at getting a slimdown revolution going before moore's law really stalls in a couple decades.