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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by M95D on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:47PM (#34793034)
I remember using Corel 8 on a 486 with 8MB of memory. I would write the text in notepad and paste it into Corel, otherwise it would take 2s for each letter to appear.

I still find it amaizing that it worked. A 486 is something like half the speed of a single core ESP32 today...

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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by Narishma on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @04:08PM (#34796023)
CorelDRAW 8 came out in 1998. That it even runs on a 486 is a miracle.
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Re:Maybe people do care about performance and reliability by anthk on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:13PM (#34796931)
Lots of peple used 486s back them. Even in 2003, lynx and gv/xv/mpg123 were perfectly usable on a FreeBSD desktop with FVWM.

If it had 16MB of RAM, or 32, it could run better. A 486DX133 would be fine.

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