alt Hacker NewsThis 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.
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kevin_thibedeau • today at 4:35 PM
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.
keicwifjwud • today at 6:26 PM
> 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.
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Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start