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> A system that is usable with 8MB of RAM? Hell yeah.

I remember finding outrageous that Linux required at least 8MB to run X Window System back in 1995. How far have we come.

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This is the floppy to bring onto the DeLorean. Relatively, today that would go to the early nighties. Pop that into into the Aptiva/AST, and go blow your own mind with this, and probably the timeline too.

I ran X on 4MB. It was heavily dependent on swap but it was just about usable for basic things especially if the application was a remote client.

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