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Window 95 ran on 8mb of ram. The first Amigas had 512k of ram. Both had much less processing power. With 32mb you could probably run some kind of Linux.
by benj111 1mo ago
Window 95 ran on 8mb of ram.
The first Amigas had 512k of ram. Both had much less processing power.
With 32mb you could probably run some kind of Linux.
- abanana 1mo agoWell, the first Amigas had only 256KB of RAM. Doubling that to 512KB (via a memory expansion card) was a luxury!
- kstrauser 1mo agoCorrect. My dad was unamused when he bought me an Amiga, and it didn’t have enough RAM to load the advertised features of AmigaBASIC and the speech synthesizer at the same time.
- Clamchop 1mo agoEven better, 8MiB was recommended for Windows 95 but it minimally required just 4.
- skipkey 1mo agoWhen I first ran linux you could boot it off of a 1.2mb floppy. The 486 I ran it on had 4mb of ram at the time, later upgraded to 16mb.
- mayli 1mo agoYep, there is a project tiny386, Win95 on ESP32, $1.85 chip. https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386/tree/master https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386/tree/master https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/14/windows-95-made-to-run-on-esp32-s3-hardware-with-tiny386-x86-pc-emulator/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/14/windows-95-made-to-r...