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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by layer8 on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:27PM (#49248508)
> But if we go only 15 years in the past, to 2011, we find the same price per GB of DRAM as today, so that affordable computers had only 16 GB of DRAM.

Uhm, in 2011 4 GB RAM was the standard for PCs (some were still sold with only 2 GB), 8 GB was already enthusiast territory. 16 GB was a professional workstation.

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Re:Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's by pessimizer on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:34PM (#49248593)
Simple programs with simple functionality becoming massive and networked and somehow less functional is the other side of shrinkflation. The reason they became huge was developer convenience i.e. they cut costs.
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