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Linux is amazing on my old Thinkpad
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That's great! Glad it's working out.
One thing made me chuckle though:
Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads of RAM?
It's an inconceivably large amount of memory and also nothing. It really depends on your perspective.
Gaming PC? Doesn't even qualify because we need the space for those graphics. A wireless router? Huge. Definitely overkill.
Memory is pretty cheap these days but what constitutes a large amount of it depends on the job. Because I mainly do embedded development where memory is measured in 4k pages most everything seems like a lot.
First stick I bought was 1MB of SIPP, used, for $50.
"When I was a boy we had to load HIMEM and EMM386 uphill in the snow"
HIMEM? What newfangled shit is that?
Really though, I do NOT miss the days of having a custom boot disk for every single game.
we had a paper with a bunch of Ys and Ns, so we could go through the autoexec.bat and config.sys step by step and decide which library to load into highmem or lowmem
My first was a 512KB sidecar.
I remember upgrading my Atari STe to 4MB (yes MB) of RAM and thinking "I'll never use that much". Now I have 32GB and I probably will use it.
4Gb is not much under Windows 11 and running Chrome
It used to be a lot back then. Right now? Not really.
t. Got a Orange pi zero 3 w/ 1 GiB of ram and the performance is really great.
I remember when my big Christmas present was an extra 16MB of RAM