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Telemakhos • today at 10:58 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

In college I had a laptop with eight megabytes of RAM. It ran Windows 3.11, including a full office suite (Ami Pro, Lotus 123, etc) and web browsers, USENET readers, mIRC, all in 8MB. It also ran an html server and ftp server as background processes. Today it couldn’t even run the RSS reader in that list.


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lmz • today at 2:51 PM

Pointers were smaller back then.