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Look into something called Geos for the Commodore 64. It’s a full Macintosh competitor GUI OS with apps on a 2mhz 8 bit machine with 64k of RAM. Yes it’s prett
by api 4y ago
Look into something called Geos for the Commodore 64. It’s a full Macintosh competitor GUI OS with apps on a 2mhz 8 bit machine with 64k of RAM.
Yes it’s pretty minimal but things like it remind us just how wasteful so much of modern software is. A great deal of our bloat has reasonable explanations like a lot more data, lots more features, high DPI displays, etc but much of it is just lazy programming and too many layers of abstraction.
- einr 4y ago2mhz 1 MHz ;)
- bitwize 4y agoIn the mid-1970s, a machine with 64k of RAM could support up to eight simultaneous users. And the apps were written in BASIC. That's how a lot of small businesses rolled with MAI Basic Four machines.
- themadturk 4y agoGEOS didn't run well at all without an external RAM pack. I had one, either 64K or 128K (no longer remember), and it ran great.