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Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable
(www.xda-developers.com)
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Pentium 75 with... 128MB of ram lol. That's LARGE!
My pentium 133 got upgraded to 128MB a few years after I had it. Definitely by 1999. It's a 1995 proc so it's not an unrealistic ram amount within the usable lifetime of the processor.