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back in the day we've had 64KB to run our GUI and it ran fine (GEOS on c64). 4MB RAM would have been jaw dropping.
by bouncycastle 5y ago
back in the day we've had 64KB to run our GUI and it ran fine (GEOS on c64). 4MB RAM would have been jaw dropping.
- codezero 5y agoI’ve come to appreciate how economical folks who experience the 8-bit era are, and it seems to be having a resurgence and I love it.
- tinus_hn 5y agoAs long as you don’t expect it to do much. GEOS barely manages to run one application at a time while swapping continuously. It’s an impressive achievement but really not comparable to a general purpose multitasking operating system.
- bouncycastle 5y agoIt was definatelly not "barely". The word processor became my workhorse for all my school assignments for a while... Also, when writing, it's probably better not to have a multitasking OS - no distractions ;-)
- brokenmachine 5y agoYou're kidding, right? GEOS was terrible. Absolutely horrible. Unusable.