[froh42]

Coming from Commodore Amiga, my first PC was a 486dx with 4MB to run Linux. I did set it up the same day I bought it - noticed 4MB was not enough to run XFree86 on top of Linux 0.99.6 or whatever, so I grumbled, checked my wallet and bank account, went back to the dealer and asked him to take back the 4MB memory and sell me 16MB of RAM.

I was a student and ate only very cheap food the rest of that month.

Oh, and a bit later (two or three years) Tanenbaum visited my University and held a lecture about Amoeba.