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by kragen 1412 days ago
> That's 512 megabytes for the entire database. Not only can you fit that in RAM now; you can fit that in RAM on a 286 from 01987.

I'm an idiot, on a regular PC you can only fit that in RAM since 01999, not 01987. Not sure how I looked at "megabytes" and thought "kilobytes", since I'd just calculated it.