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Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable
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a pentium with 128mb of ram?? sure, if you were richie rich....
back in 1994 ram was around $100 per mb, so those specs are INSANE! i don't even know if they made motherboards that could hanlde that much ram back then.
My 386 in 1993 had 4mb of ram, and i was jealous of all the kids with shinny new 486s with their 8mb of ram
8mb of ram didn't become the standard until win98 demanded that much