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by Someone 543 days ago
> so even win16 or macOS classic would be a bit heavy.

Speed-wise, both would run exceptionally well on that hardware.

The first Mac had 128kB memory, about 32 of which were taken by its video and audio buffers. It ran at about 8MHz.

The first version of Windows ran on similar hardware, requiring a 8088 and 256kB of memory.

The pico has at least that amount of memory, at top speed 16 times the clock frequency, and two cores.

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