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Re:Next Computers by anthk on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:39AM (#35872784)
Back in the day with i686 Linuxes you ran terms with screen under 8MB of RAM and lots of SVGAlib software.
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Re:Next Computers by badsectoracula on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:14PM (#35877396)
I had a Pentium 1 laptop with 8MB of RAM in early 2000s (bought it for very cheap, my first laptop) running Slackware with Window Maker and Emacs :-)
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Re:Next Computers by anthk on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:45PM (#35877888)
Wmaker and Emacs? You did a custom kernel build right?

For being something to brag against, you used XEmacs, I guess. Or X-compiled Emacs, in order to be a "big" accomplishment. UXTerm+Emacs under the CLI was "big", but manageable; the X build (even the Athena or Lucid one) wasn't a light thing at all.

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