[Xastir-dev] Long Term CPU

[Jerry Chamberlin]

128 Meg, I was dreaming of the 640 K limit Gates put on Windows

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:31:52AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> > > Heh.  128K Linux box.  Takes ya back, it does.  Typo, I hope.
> > 
> > What I'm running here typing this message on.  PP200 with 128k
> > physical.  Reliable as all getout.
> 
> 128 *K*?  Really?  When Xastir's almost-bare footprint with a few shapefiles 
> loaded is something on the order of 20M?  The running X server on my machine 
> has an RSS of 60M.  Doesn't 128K trash?  I haven't owned a machine with less 
> than 1MB of core in over 10 years --- in 1991 my first PC running BSD was a 
> 386 with 8MB.  I'm in awe that 128K is enough for anything.  More power to
> ya.
> 
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