Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Old Hardware Redux Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:05:18 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <20250821130518.00000470@gmail.com> References: <1084bk6$2ia1m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <1084bpn$7mtq$26@dont-email.me> <68a64428@news.ausics.net> <1086q67$2rq5s$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1086shp$sftd$1@dont-email.me> <1086tca$rgpt$21@dont-email.me> <6icjnlxs6v.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <1087144$rgpt$27@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="299d2efc5cfc3f5997f345c0ace1f2ef"; logging-data="1217011"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/cOv70NrdBe/OYvQtn4HHin0tGXAlpLaU=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:WtbrhsKGl4wt/JhbzcesA/7fuhU= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71869 On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:30:51 +0200 "Carlos E.R." wrote: > >>> Heh, maybe 16 megs. > >>> > >> No GUI on that then... > > > > Maybe not with Linux, but a UNIX system of suitable vintage could. > > Windows 3 was a GUI, and it certainly worked in that. There seems to be a peculiar notion that GUIs *have* to be insanely bloated, glitzy, over-featured monstrosities that chew up a couple gigs all by themselves. Windows 3.x or Mac System 7 would run perfectly well in 4 MB, and with 8 MB had room to spare. Heck, even older vintages of X11 (nobody's idea of a lightweight GUI) will run usably in a 16-32 MB. But hey! It's certainly a convenient line of reasoning for modern GUI developers who *do* chew up more memory just to run a display server/ window manager than you'd find in a whole entire PC twenty years ago!