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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

“640k ought to be enough for anyone.”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

i could run wing commander 2, ultima underworld, and lands of lore. who needs any more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s amazing that with transparent huge pages in Linux I can have memory pages bigger than that entire 640k.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

My CPU's L1 cache is larger than that 640K system's main memory.