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512MB ram is nothing now (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Freestylesno@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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512MB was a huge flash drive now it's not enough ram. Turns out Spotify can't open-source Car Thing because it's a potato https://www.androidauthority.com/spotify-car-thing-open-source-3449487/

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It depends on what you are doing. I've got single board computers running happily with 512MB of RAM. I certainly wouldn't want to try and run a GUI on them though.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You might not remember that the original Macintosh had 128KB. That's KB with a K.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

Our 90s Mac ran OS 7.6 with 24 MB of ram and a 500MB HD.

Played shareware/warez games pretty well too, even OG Warcraft over 56k dialup direct to my friend’s PC.

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