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Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by crazygringo on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:14PM (#22818215)
Wow. From:

  64K RAM SYSTEM  38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
to:

  16700332000 KB SYSTEM RAM 3865524000 KILOBYTES FREE
?? Wait a minute... this guy has 16 terabytes of RAM?!?!

I mean I knew we've come a long way... but not that long. ;)

Looking at the code, it's a bug in reset.ps1 that mistakenly appends "000". So just a normal 16 GB system, phew.

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Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by FreeFull on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @07:49PM (#22818424)
Maybe not 16TB, but it is possible to have a desktop computer with 1.5TB of RAM (16 RAM slots, with 128GB per RAM stick). It is going to be fairly expensive, though.
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Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by tschw on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:57PM (#22819384)
Worth it, though. Think of all the chrome tabs you could have open.
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Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by saagarjha on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:27AM (#22820055)
About 6000, apparently: https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1225602339056189445
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Re:A Commodore 64 Skin for Windows Terminal by takeda on Thursday April 09, 2020 @02:46AM (#22820369)
That's how many I usually had open when Opera had Presto engine ;P
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