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FWIW, Apple's Power Macintosh 8500, released 25 years ago tomorrow, started at 120MHz & 16MB RAM, but went up to 200MHz & 512MB RAM.

As I recall, it was pretty snappy! I think it would still have been sufficiently snappy had its OS been written in Smalltalk or Lisp …

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BeOS on a 166Mhz Pentium with 128MB of RAM (luxury!) felt positively spacious. Like you were lavishing it with far more resources than it needed and so rarely risked even approaching its limits, so far as maintaining UI responsiveness while multitasking, at least.

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