What features would you like to see in P3Dv5?

[Christopher Low 5,325]

If 32GB is considered to be the top end of the RAM pile in home PCs (possibly a conservative estimate), then think about how much memory was in PCs way back in 1989. I suspect it was about 1MB. That is an increase of over 30,000 times! If the same increase happens between now and 2049, then we will have Skynet with 1000TB of RAM!!

[Ray Proudfoot 8,905]

11 minutes ago, simbol said:

Actually I use in memory databases at work where everything is loaded into RAM for high speed access.

Our test database uses 1Tb to hold just test data while the production servers are using now near 5Tb of RAM.

Regards 

Simbol 

But is that related to flight sim? I suspect not. What is the most memory demanding airport currently available for P3D v4? It would be interesting to know.

[simbol 5,767]

4 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

But is that related to flight sim? I suspect not. What is the most memory demanding airport currently available for P3D v4? It would be interesting to know.

You said by a single 64bits program.. The ram software is 64bits and it is only limited by your hardware physical RAM.

S.

 

[Ray Proudfoot 8,905]

8 minutes ago, simbol said:

You said by a single 64bits program.. The ram software is 64bits and it is only limited by your hardware physical RAM.

S.

I understand that. I’m hoping someone answers my question as it will be interesting to know how far away from needing a 128-bit OS and P3D we are. Not in my lifetime I suspect.

[GSalden 4,653]

“ Santa , plse gimme 2 cores for the main thread and I’ll be a good boy ..” 🎅

[Pete Dowson 558]

2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

think about how much memory was in PCs way back in 1989. I suspect it was about 1MB.

My first "PC" (before they were called that -- it was coined by IBM and they came in late) had 8kb! It was the first Commodore Pet. And I established my software business on a word processor written for it.

That was the version with a calculator-style keyboard and a front mounted cassette drive.  About a year later a 32kb version with a proper keyboard appeared. That was when things really took off.  I left employment (with ICL) when the income from my Word Processor ("WordCraft") exceeded that from ICL. That would be in 1979.

Other companies soon joined in the PC market, with IBM actually quite a latecomer.

I can't remember, though, when we started talking in Megabytes!

Pete

 

 

[MDFlier 2,031]

You took the words right out of my mouth, Pete. We had that conversation back when 512k was a lot of memory and we were pondering what life would be like when we got to MB. 

[Ray Proudfoot 8,905]

I feel a “four Yorkshireman” sketch brewing here. “Eight kilobytes??? Luxury!!! We used to dream of eight kilobytes!!!” 😁 For the benefit of those who haven’t a clue what I’m talking about... 

 

[Mace 1,896]

8 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

If 32GB is considered to be the top end of the RAM pile in home PCs (possibly a conservative estimate), then think about how much memory was in PCs way back in 1989. I suspect it was about 1MB. That is an increase of over 30,000 times! If the same increase happens between now and 2049, then we will have Skynet with 1000TB of RAM!!

My 1991 386SX/20 had 256K.   1MB was a dream.

My Apple //e circa 1984 had I think, 32k of ram.  I can't quite remember.

[Christopher Low 5,325]

My 1988 Commodore Amiga 500 had 512k RAM, so I suspect that something, somewhere had 1MB in 1989. My first PC (a 386SX25) had 1MB RAM in January 1992, but I was at the low end of the power curve at that time.

Edited May 22, 2019 by Christopher Low

[Manny 1,293]

XP like Night lighting

FSX water.

Backward compatible as much as possible... 

🙂

Manny

Edited May 22, 2019 by Manny

[Mace 1,896]

No wonder my 386 took so long to load things.

[Amon1973 1,421]

I remember when I was at school (we were the first school year to do Computer Studies) in the early 80's, I had a BBC model B with 32 kb of RAM (the model A had 16kb), the Maths teacher who was the only teacher that could program and therefore teach Computer Studies was so jealous of me because at first we only had a Commadore Pet computer like Pete had, while my computer had "modern graphics" etc. This is when I was introduced to the world of flight simulation with the BBC program Aviator. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/21325/Aviator (disk)/

 

[F1Fan 121]

On 5/20/2019 at 11:49 AM, B777ER said:

TrueSky https://simul.co/truesky/

 

This TrueSky.  It was in the Dovetail FSW Simulator correct?   It's too bad that FSW got canceled.  I was really looking forward to the completion but sadly it fell through.  Still have it installed in my PC, don't know why......I don't touch it anymore.......Wondering if FSW can still be salvage by another developer?..No?

Edited May 22, 2019 by egguzman

[eslader 1,774]

7 hours ago, Mace said:

My Apple //e circa 1984 had I think, 32k of ram.  I can't quite remember.

I remember getting the 512k ram expansion card for my Apple IIGS so I could load programs onto a ram disk instead of accessing them off of the floppies. 

 

That was also the first computer I used a flight simulator on, unless you count River Raid on the Atari 2600. 😉