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by android42 918 days ago
They probably half assed the android one, but would have allocated more resources to it if it had a future.

I had flash 5 running just fine on my 2004 palm with 32MB of RAM and a 312 MHz CPU.

This also would have been Macromedia though and not Adobe, not sure how many of the original developers they kept.

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That wasn’t full desktop Flash. That was a very lite version that wasn’t compatible with what was then the latest version.

Do you really think that Adobe could have optimized Flash to support hardware that had eight times less RAM and was half as fast four years earlier?