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[Alan Buxey <alan.buxey AT myunidays.com>]

hi,

> I think people need to stop running on pocket calculators and they'll find 
> the results really aren't that bad. Embedded systems are one thing, but 
> nobody should be running a server in 2020 with 4GB of RAM and if they do, 
> there are workarounds they can use to offload processing to other tools.

it's probably because the way systems operate is changing - people
moving from big iron in their own data-centres to eg
hosted/managed service in the cloud...where, for example, you have
Docker/Kubernetes/Fargate etc services and
those instances are eg 1Gb/2Gb of RAM - and getting much more
expensive to run if eg moving to 16GB offerings

these services are often configured as single core (once again,
costings) -but as you say, that doesn't matter.

alan