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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by mixedCase on Saturday February 04, 2023 @03:28PM (#34657908)
I ran e16 and then e17 as my main desktop back in the day for a good while. I'm sorry but what we had back then was nowhere even near what I'm talking about.

It definitely was pretty for the day, though.

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by anthk on Saturday February 04, 2023 @04:35PM (#34658581)
Then, OSX. A G4 with 512MB of RAM could perfectly do that at 1280x800.
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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by whartung on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:59PM (#34659887)
NeXTSTEP 3.1 ran fine at 1152x832 4 shade mono with 20MB of RAM. 32MB if you were running color.

It was also rendering Display PostScript on a 25Mhz '040. One of the first machines in its day that allowed you to drag full windows, rather than frames on the desktop. High tech in action!

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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by talideon on Sunday February 05, 2023 @05:06AM (#34663522)
You could also do that in '92-ish on RISC OS 3 running on a 1MB Acorn Archimedes with 12MHz ARM2 processor, with high quality font antialiasing. Those were the days!
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Re:De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM by prmoustache on Sunday February 05, 2023 @03:29AM (#34663032)
What do we have today that we didn't have back them in term of bare desktop support?

I mean we have larger resolution support amd scaling for hidpi, better/faster indexation, better touchpad support. Can you name anything else? Localization hasn't progressed that much, I remember already being able to select some barely spoken dialects on linux 20y ago?

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