For someone who started computing on his father's Osborne 1, hearing people casually mention that they upgraded their server to 48GB induces something like vertigo.
A 768,000 fold increase in main memory. Christ we've come a long way.
One version of Moore's Law predicts x1000 increase in 15 years (x2 every 1.5 years; 2^10 = 1024).
48GB isn't standard today. The ordinary amount in an average desktop PC is about 2GB. Therefore, in 15 years (2024), we can expect ordinary, standard desktop PC to have 2TB RAM.
A 768,000 fold increase in main memory. Christ we've come a long way.