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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by js8 on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:21AM (#27781238)
I am using Asus netbook with 1GB RAM, 32GB SSD (and vanilla Ubuntu) quite regularly, and use it to write Haskell programs. Frankly the small disk is more of a concern, but I have to be mindful of memory also. If I run Firefox, Emacs and GHC together, there is a high chance that I run out of memory (and more likely than not, Linux OOM will kill a wrong process after a 20-minute system freeze).

(I wish I could get rid of Firefox from the three, but I need to look up documentation for whatever language I use, usually Haskell, and eww is not a replacement, because it's not multithreaded, Emacs freezes when it needs to format a web page.)

In any case, in early 00s, I was using a 486 machine with 12 MB of RAM with Linux. It was spartan but writing Latex (I think I was using Jed and twm at the time) was possible on it.

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Re:The Old Computer Challenge by anthk on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:34AM (#27784740)
> (I wish I could get rid of Firefox from the three, but I need to look up documentation for whatever language I use, usually Haskell,

Lynx, Links, Elinks, W3M, Netsurf, Dillo HG from mercurial (openssl-dev, fltk-dev and mbedtls-devel as dependencies, I can help with a custom build in a breeze).

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