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Re:Modern Linux in an ancient PC by icedchai on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:57AM (#16086071)
Another example of the shocking bloat of modern software.

I had a 486 with 16 megs of RAM and was able to browse the web (Netscape 1.0!), compile kernels, and have something like 8 people logged in remotely checking email.

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Re:Modern Linux in an ancient PC by jacquesm on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:11PM (#16086179)
I'll trade you an 80's era mainframe that had all the bank branch offices of a small country online with only a couple of megabytes of RAM.
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