Networking and loss of memory

[sbnak1]

Is it true that being part of a network will cut your RAM memory in half? I was at an AutoCAD 2002 seminar and the instructors were telling me that if I had 128MB of RAM but was on a network that as soon as I was connected to that network I would lose half of my memory. Anybody have any thoughts?

 

[paparazi]

What a load of B********cks!!
Simple as that! Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.

 

[garwain]

hrm. If my old P166MX with 48MB ram running win2k would loose half it's memory when it connects to a network, I'd be lucky for the machine to have enough memory to finish loading windows, let alone start up Photoshop and my scanner software with outlook running in the background

Seeing as my machine runs fine with all the programs that I commonly use for scanning and modifying images I don't see that as being true

Also there is absolutly no reason that I can think of that the ram would be affected by connecting to a network. Sure you loose a bit when TCP/IP and any other protocols are loaded into memory, but the only way this could take half your memory would be if you only had 2-4 MB or ram, in which case you probably wouldn't be doing much on a network anyway while performing operations that would need RAM...

 

[crisc]

I concur with the others, this is simply not true. Your instructors are either grossly exaggerating, or are connected to seriously problematic networks if they believe this.

 

[FatesWebb]

ahahahah win2k running 48mb and scanning images... molassas has gotta be faster than that