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Post #1078059
2026-04-03 06:13 UTC
@colinstu In the era of the first Pentium processors we had 8 MiB (yes, Mibi) of RAM quite often, and 16 MiB the lucky ones.
Had a colleague who wrote a memory leaking application, because he wrote convoluted C++ code, instantiating too many out of control classes - the style that I would later witness with Java.
When he got a new job position he was triumphant: "Ha! Now I have a PC with 256 megs!".
He didn't realize that any space can be filled.
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2026-04-03 07:45
@luc0x61 I had installed Linux on a machine with 16MB in 1995, started X, a web server and a Netware server. I had an bunch of terminal windows open. It wasn’t until I started another terminal window that I ran out of memory and found out that this Slackware version didn’t enable the swap correctly, so I had done all that without swap.