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This has strong "How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?" vibes. Back in my day 100MB was all you had for all your compute, and somehow programs still ran.

big85 2mo ago
LumiWeather for AmigaOS runs on 2 MB RAM.
- drdaeman 2mo ago
  ESP32 in my OpenSprinkler pulls the weather (among a few more things it does) just fine and it has 520 kilobytes or RAM total.
  - 2Gkashmiri 2mo ago
    Windows really I'd shitty for "assuming" unlimited ram, storage, processing, internet budget for them to get away with it. They "could" make it easy but why bother? I assume next update will make calculator 1 gb download, 2gb ram resident and ADS
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kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
When RAM was $100 per MB that would be $10,000. You can do a weather app in much less provided you use native code.
whynotmaybe 2mo ago
Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start
- SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago
  Had to get a ride to drive floppies with corrected config.sys and autoexec.bat files around to friends. Things weren’t actually worse.
  - iinnPP 2mo ago
    Personally, I have reverted back to sneakernet in a lot of what I do.
- baal80spam 2mo ago
  Good times.
keicwifjwud 2mo ago
> Back in my day Back in my day systems used to be a lot simpler too. These “back in my mind” comparisons show a clear lack of understanding of the subject matter. 1996 apps are not the same as 2026 apps. Expectations are different. Design languages are different. Even the UX is entirely different. 1GB is clearly overkill, no question. But ~100MB to ~300MB is perfectly reasonable and you know it.
- vinyl7 2mo ago
  99% of apps have the same or less functionality today as they did in 2001, but are significantly slower and worse.
  - chrisandchris 2mo ago
    Functionality isn't everything. A human teller has the (more or less) same functionality as online banking, but I do love me some online banking. I also like the weather icons being 4K and having some smooth anmiations. Not to say that it's gone worse (it has IMHO) but comparing 25 years ago to know doesn't help much. Times were different back then. That's like comparing 1900 travel to today.
- karmakurtisaani 2mo ago
  Yeah I wrote it a bit tongue in cheek, but even then I can't help but wondering where is all that memory needed. My best guess is the GUI is somehow really heavy, wouldn't expect a simple console program that connects to some weather API to require that much RAM. But I never worked on apps like this, so no clear idea.

big85 2mo ago

LumiWeather for AmigaOS runs on 2 MB RAM.

drdaeman 2mo ago
ESP32 in my OpenSprinkler pulls the weather (among a few more things it does) just fine and it has 520 kilobytes or RAM total.
- 2Gkashmiri 2mo ago
  Windows really I'd shitty for "assuming" unlimited ram, storage, processing, internet budget for them to get away with it. They "could" make it easy but why bother? I assume next update will make calculator 1 gb download, 2gb ram resident and ADS
- deleted 2mo ago
  [deleted]

kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago

When RAM was $100 per MB that would be $10,000. You can do a weather app in much less provided you use native code.

whynotmaybe 2mo ago

Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start

SV_BubbleTime 2mo ago
Had to get a ride to drive floppies with corrected config.sys and autoexec.bat files around to friends. Things weren’t actually worse.
- iinnPP 2mo ago
  Personally, I have reverted back to sneakernet in a lot of what I do.
baal80spam 2mo ago
Good times.

keicwifjwud 2mo ago

> Back in my day Back in my day systems used to be a lot simpler too. These “back in my mind” comparisons show a clear lack of understanding of the subject matter. 1996 apps are not the same as 2026 apps. Expectations are different. Design languages are different. Even the UX is entirely different. 1GB is clearly overkill, no question. But ~100MB to ~300MB is perfectly reasonable and you know it.

vinyl7 2mo ago
99% of apps have the same or less functionality today as they did in 2001, but are significantly slower and worse.
- chrisandchris 2mo ago
  Functionality isn't everything. A human teller has the (more or less) same functionality as online banking, but I do love me some online banking. I also like the weather icons being 4K and having some smooth anmiations. Not to say that it's gone worse (it has IMHO) but comparing 25 years ago to know doesn't help much. Times were different back then. That's like comparing 1900 travel to today.
karmakurtisaani 2mo ago
Yeah I wrote it a bit tongue in cheek, but even then I can't help but wondering where is all that memory needed. My best guess is the GUI is somehow really heavy, wouldn't expect a simple console program that connects to some weather API to require that much RAM. But I never worked on apps like this, so no clear idea.