Quote - as to your post, limitations last only as long as hardware limits them... there was a time when you could not save a 20mg file because your hard drive was only 20mgs.

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Ah, the good ol' days... I remember the first company I worked for, developing software... we sold Altos computers (No? I'd never heard of them before that either, and I haven't heard anything about them for a long time since).

They came with 40 Mb hard drives, 1/2 a Mb of RAM (yes, that's 500 kilobytes, kiddies!). Or you could buy the "deluxe" model, which came with 80 Mb of hard drive and an entire, full 1 Mb of RAM. Yay!

To contrast, I downloaded a couple of PDF files this morning that totaled a touch over 100 MB. Didn't even think about how big they were, just made a folder on one of the four (300+ Gb) hard drives I've got, downloaded them in a couple of minutes via my trusty cable modem, then for good measure I copied them to my 8 GB flash drive so I could read them on another computer later.

My, but the times they do change.