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I ran e16 and then e17 as my main desktop back in the day for a good while. I'm sorry but what we had back then was nowhere even near what I'm talking about. I

• anthk 4y ago
  Then, OSX. A G4 with 512MB of RAM could perfectly do that at 1280x800.
  • whartung 4y ago
    NeXTSTEP 3.1 ran fine at 1152x832 4 shade mono with 20MB of RAM. 32MB if you were running color. It was also rendering Display PostScript on a 25Mhz '040. One of the first machines in its day that allowed you to drag full windows, rather than frames on the desktop. High tech in action!
    • talideon 4y ago
      You could also do that in '92-ish on RISC OS 3 running on a 1MB Acorn Archimedes with 12MHz ARM2 processor, with high quality font antialiasing. Those were the days!
• prmoustache 4y ago
  What do we have today that we didn't have back them in term of bare desktop support? I mean we have larger resolution support amd scaling for hidpi, better/faster indexation, better touchpad support. Can you name anything else? Localization hasn't progressed that much, I remember already being able to select some barely spoken dialects on linux 20y ago?