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by rasz 2038 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.

2 comments

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

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