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Scrollable weather radar with only 8MB RAM (i.imgur.com)

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Old enough to remember when that was a good amount of RAM for a PC.

[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Eight megabytes and continuously swapping. ;)

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird that we used to have to use paging memory but Windows still felt way faster back then.

[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

At one point I was running BeOS on a Pentium 75 with 16MB RAM, later upgraded to a K6-2 266 with 128MB. Those machines, particularly the K6-2, felt faster than anything else I've ever used, and was better at certain things than any other computer I've ever used.