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Re:Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015) by pacaro on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:25PM (#13840788)
Back when EMACS stood for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.

It's salutary to consider that the memory for a reasonably spec'd machine a little over 20 years ago is now a rounding error

I remember at about that time having 80MiB of RAM: a) my machine flew, and b) plenty of people would ask why I needed so much

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Re:Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015) by dekhn on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:09PM (#13841124)
the "exotic" machine at the time was a Digital Alpha (64 bit! In 1995) that had 64MB IIRC. It did fly. The solaris machines we used took 20 minuts to boot and another 1 minute to open a shell.
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