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Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes"
Date 2025-05-29 08:24 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2025May29.102452@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
>> My phone is from 2009.  Nobody forces me to abandon it.  What chance
>> are you not given.
>
>You can't use a 2009 phone in the US.  All the 2G and 3G networks are
>shut down.

According to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Past_2G_networks>,
T-Mobile commenced the shutdown of 2G on 9 Feb 2025, so you certainly
could use a 2009-vintage phone until then.  Unfortunately, I don't see
a list of present 2G providers; you might be able to continue to use a
2009-vintage phone by switching providers.  Looking further around, I
read that some people think that T-Mobile was the last 2G provider in
the USA.

Anyway, 2G is alive and well around here (Austria).  3G is a different
story, though.  Another reason not to get something newer before I
have to.

>For servers you can run pretty much the same software as before, but on
>the client side you have to use web browsers to get by in today's world,
>and those browsers have to run awful bloaty Javascript monstrosities
>that are on everyone's web sites now.

On my laptop I have a web browser running that has JavaScript enabled,
with hundreds of open tabs.  On this laptop currently 11GB of ram are
used.  I am sure it could run in 8GB using some swap space (and maybe
closing some tabs); my system from 2008 could accomodate at least 8GB
of RAM. probably 16GB; my system from 2015 could accomodate at least
64GB RAM, probably 128GB.

On my desktop I have JavaScript disabled.  There are lots of websites
the work fine without JavaScript.  And many of those that don't work
fine without JavaScript are a disappointment with JavaScript, too.

>I think my laptop in 2005 was a Pentium 3 with 512MB of ram.
>It would be almost unusable now.

The Pentium 3 was introduced in 1999, with new models introduced up to
2003.  As for using it, you might look at
<https://medium.com/@techrefreshing02/low-on-ram-try-these-5-lightweight-linux-distros-under-512mb-55e689ada854>

- anton
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      Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-05-28 07:56 -0700
      Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2025-05-29 13:57 +1000
        Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-29 06:47 +0000
          Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-05-29 00:22 -0700
            Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-05-29 08:24 +0000
              Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2025-05-29 13:02 +0200
              Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-05-31 00:04 -0700
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                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2025-05-31 13:58 +0200
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              Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-06-03 04:39 -0700
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                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-06-06 17:02 -0700
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-06-08 19:41 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" zbigniew2011@gmail.com (LIT) - 2025-06-08 20:41 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-06-08 22:26 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" zbigniew2011@gmail.com (LIT) - 2025-06-08 22:58 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-06-09 06:27 +0000
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                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2025-06-09 15:52 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2025-06-10 11:31 +1000
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                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-06-10 14:09 -0700
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-06-08 19:41 +0000
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                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-06-06 12:00 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" zbigniew2011@gmail.com (LIT) - 2025-06-06 13:21 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-06-06 07:54 -0700
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-06-07 12:47 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> - 2025-06-07 12:47 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-06-09 08:20 -0700
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" sjack@dontemail.me (sjack) - 2025-06-06 14:37 +0000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2025-06-07 00:55 +1000
                Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" zbigniew2011@gmail.com (LIT) - 2025-06-06 18:13 +0000
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            Re: "A Forth OS In 46 Bytes" Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2025-05-29 01:12 -0700
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