How Logos Works - Computer Question

Roger Kadeg
Roger Kadeg Member Posts: 15
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I posted this in general forum, but perhaps this forum more applicable. 

I am evaluating a potential computer upgrade, and have been in discussions with a friend who is most knowledgeable re: computers.  Following are his comments:

"In early computers, you inserted a floppy disc, ran a program and waited for 30-300 seconds while it loaded the program from a floppy disk into RAM memory.  The program size as well as the working files were limited by RAM size.  Once hard drives became affordable, software still loaded the same way with a single exception: RBASE, DBASE and Oracle were written in such a way that the program was loaded into RAM, but the data was accessed from the hard drive making the database size limited only by the size of your hard drive.  Finally, some software beyond databases (word processors, GIS, Inventorying software) followed suit allowing the data to be stored on the hard drive making document sizes, and other files to be as big as possible.  Then the OS became a limitation: hard drives were quite large, but the single database file that you could write to could only be a certain size as limited by the OS.  Finally, with SSDs, the software began to buffer and swap information on ram with that on the hard drive to give you performance, and capacity.  Today we see the emergence of AI, where the computer looks at the way you work, and then optimizes the information to load to boost performance.

WHAT YOU ARE DESCRIBING is an old program that takes a long time to load because it puts everything into RAM, and then is blink of an eye fast once loaded.  If this is the case, the program, not the computer is always going to be slow to load and have RAM memory limitations.  The only time I see this is in old software that was developed under older systems and has not been upgraded/re-written.  Thus I suggested thinking about a MAC or an Ipad to test my theory as the program would have to have been re-written for those platforms and the base code would be newer regardless of versioning.

Another thing that happens with software, and I verified this looking at one of the complaints, is that when the software starts is goes to the internet to verify if there are any updates and may automatically apply those updates.  The process of contacting, logging on, checking/verifying your information can be slow if they have slow servers plus this is a privacy concern.  Is there an option you can select to stop this?  Often it is just a matter of opting out of automatic updates, and only updating when you tell it to.  Other software wont start unless it can login and verify you have a valid license with the remote server and you cant stop this.  And still other programs do this in background.  This is very likely where your slow down is".

Is his assessment correct - is the program loading to RAM and  RAM access  limited (which would include motherboard pathways) -. legacy not AI design?  I have an SSD, but older (e.g. 500MB/sec transfer - new ones several thousand).  My I7 is fourth generation with 4 cores.  For this program, would it make any sense to upgrade - e.g. new SSD and 10th gen. with 6 or 8 cores?  Does the graphics card come into play at all for this program in terms of speed/response - e.g. in terms of playing courseware videos?  Finally, is his assumption re: Mac programming correct - is Mac version noticeably faster - is it the same or feature limited? 

Greatly appreciate anyone who can answer my questions!  Thank-you!! 

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