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> (which were allowed to have as little as 256 KiB of RAM per the minimum requirements). That's the L2 cache of an Ivy Bridge CPU. I remember finding an old l
by topspin 8y ago
> (which were allowed to have as little as 256 KiB of RAM per the minimum requirements).
That's the L2 cache of an Ivy Bridge CPU.
I remember finding an old laptop that I somehow ended up with in some box: Windows 3.1 with a TCP stack in 8 MiB of RAM.
That's the L3 cache of an Ivy Bridge CPU.
- pjc50 8y agoI still have my Toshiba Libretto 30, which also has 8MB RAM and dual-booted Windows 95 or Red Hat. It could run the Opera browser fairly well.
- IntelMiner 8y agoI've got a Libretto 110 which I managed to coax into playing 480P MPEG-2 video a couple years back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIHmm3ZTQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIHmm3ZTQ0 It might not sound impressive today. But back then, playing full screen video on a PC usually required an "MPEG accelerator card" (Excuse the awful recording quality, all I had was a mediocre phone at the time)
- acqq 8y agoThe CP/M computers had 64 KB addressable. That's the total of the data+instruction L1 cache on each core. I've used WordStar on a machine with 64 KB addressable, which was as WSIWYG word processor as possible on the text monitor with 80x25 characters. It showed you all the possible actions in each step too -- what even today so many programs don't manage to do. If I remember it didn't keep the whole program in the RAM at once, but had its own swapping mechanism. I've also used a Turbo Pascal there, which was even on such a machine amazingly fast. By default the compilation was directly to memory, no waiting on any disk.