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by zozbot234 2401 days ago
> It wasn't that long ago that 512MB was a respectable amount of DRAM in a big server.

Whereas today, 512MB is a bare minimum amount of DRAM in a general-purpose desktop. Times change.
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blattimwind 2401 days ago
I don't think you can run a modern Linux or Windows 10 desktop on 512 MB RAM. Even my slim Linux desktop (no DE) consumes about 400 MB of RAM after login. Web-browsing with less than ~2 GB of memory doesn't seem feasible.
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