Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
by hedora on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:36PM
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Prodigy had vector based graphics in a terminal back in the 1980’s. Granted, that targeted EGA and 2400 baud modems, but I wonder how well it would work on modern hardware if you just gave it a 4k, 24bit frame buffer, and fixed up the inevitable integer overflows.
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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM
by whartung on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:54PM
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Actually, I've run Citrix (ancestor of Remote Desktop) on a 14.4k modem. Once all the bitmaps are downloaded and cached (those app launch 1/2 screen splash pages were murder), it ran pretty well. The meta graphic operations (lines, circles, fills, etc.), fonts, etc. worked fine. Any large pixmap operations were crushing, but most productivity apps didn't use those as much as you'd think.