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Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994) by bitwize on Thursday March 05, 2020 @08:24PM (#22500255)
It will only take up a couple of GiB of RAM to display hello, world.
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Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994) by unlinked_dll on Friday March 06, 2020 @12:46AM (#22501261)
More like 200MB but who cares? RAM is cheap(er than CPU cycles and developer salaries)
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Re:The X-Windows Disaster (1994) by bitwize on Friday March 06, 2020 @02:33AM (#22501666)
Well, I projected forward a few years and imagined how it would be when software "evolves" and becomes more "modern".
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