In case this discussion is still about a 20 MB RAM NodeGUI application, I don't think this is a comparable situation because DOS was really not about developing cross-platform applications with a Turing complete styling language. It was about building text mode tools that ran on x86 and nothing else. I swear even the "bloated" Windows 10 will have absolutely no trouble running a Win32 Console application at < 1 MB RAM consumption but that's not what this is about.