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1. trollb+h6[view] [source] 2025-12-06 15:15:32
>>LorenD+(OP)
Not to disrespect this, but it used to be entirely normal to have a GUI environment on a machine with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB disk.

Or 128K of ram and 400 kb disk for that matter.

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2. maccar+P7[view] [source] 2025-12-06 15:26:34
>>trollb+h6
A single 1920x1080 framebuffer (which is a low resolution monitor in 2025 IMO) is 2MB. Add any compositing into the mix for multi window displays and it literally doesn’t fit in memory.
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3. bobmcn+Fj[view] [source] 2025-12-06 16:58:19
>>maccar+P7
It's so much fun working with systems with more pixels than ram though. Manually interleaving interrupts. What joy.
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