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by generalizations 2036 days ago
Totally agree. I was rather intentionally using examples from more than a decade ago, where I was using the progress bar to observe whether or not the whole system was hung.

This was back when my best computer had a 500 MHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM.
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rasz 2036 days ago
<fixes his glasses> There was never a time when

>best computer had a 500 MHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM

500 MHz cpus started showing up in servers with 21164 in 1996 in boxes maxing out at 2GB ram, and on desktops with 1999 Pentium 3 plugged into 1998 chipset (440BX) already supporting 1GB.

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generalizations 2036 days ago
I didn't say I wasn't a broke kid at the time. ;)
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themaninthedark 2036 days ago
Really all you need is 32 KB of RAM

https://youtu.be/CPRvc2UMeMI?t=85

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