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		nine_k on May 23, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SerenityOS – a graphical Unix-like OS for x86, wit... The point is that the device with 2KB RAM is a single-purpose embedded controller, and the device with 4MB RAM used to be a full-blown universal desktop daily productivity machine.

wazoox on May 23, 2019 [–]

Though I remember that it was more or less necessary to have 8MB to browse the Web on those Windows 3.11 486s :)

newsbinator on May 24, 2019 | [–]

I was browsing on Windows 3.11 with 4mb. Opera 3.62 + Trumpet Winsock could handle it.

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