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Re:Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) by epx on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:03PM (#27174572)
Could be a myth or not, but it was said back in 1993 that a fire in a cresol chemical factory in Japan made DRAM prices to go up, which delayed the adoption of Windows NT.

Semi related: Using some Unix flavor in PCs was a desire for many, but always postponed because it took twice the RAM as Windows. First heard about Linux in 1996 but started to play with it in 1998 when I could afford a separate PC with 64MB of RAM to run it comfortably.

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Re:Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) by mistrial9 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:10PM (#27176618)
Window 3 "Chicago" was released in 1995, NT well after that IIR
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Re:Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) by anyfoo on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:28PM (#27178234)
Chicago was the code name for Windows 95, not Windows 3. NT was released before Windows 95, in 1993.
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