@WesternInfidels@feddit.online
2026-10-05 01:48 UTC
My Windows 2000 machine had 512MB of RAM. With it I could browse the web, run full-featured word processors, scan images, edit images, play 3D games, edit / compile / debug C and C++ programs, and so on.
If memory serves, my office machine about that time only had 128MB of RAM. It was slower, but it could do just about all of that stuff, too.
I’m not sure there are any broad categories of tasks I use computers for today that I wasn’t already using my Windows 2000 machine for back in 2001 or so.
It’s hard to fathom where all the RAM in modern systems goes. A million somethings is a lot. A million bytes is a huge amount of information. War And Peace is under four million characters.
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@Strider@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 05:26
This is why it is (often) so important that a new generation takes over. They haven’t experienced this as we did. They mostly don’t know. So every new generation is a new opportunity to pull off this shit.
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@jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 2026-10-05 05:57
My first win95 machine had 32MB, win98SE had 128MB, win2k had 512MB, and winXP had 8GB, my win11 has 128GB.