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Re:Shrinking NixOS RAM footprint and resource requirements t... by Telemakhos on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:58AM (#50350428)
In college I had a laptop with eight megabytes of RAM. It ran Windows 3.11, including a full office suite (Ami Pro, Lotus 123, etc) and web browsers, USENET readers, mIRC, all in 8MB. It also ran an html server and ftp server as background processes. Today it couldn’t even run the RSS reader in that list.
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Re:Shrinking NixOS RAM footprint and resource requirements t... by lmz on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:51AM (#50352728)
Pointers were smaller back then.
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