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16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

“640k ought to be enough for anyone.”

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

EMACS: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

i could run wing commander 2, ultima underworld, and lands of lore. who needs any more?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s amazing that with transparent huge pages in Linux I can have memory pages bigger than that entire 640k.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago

My CPU's L1 cache is larger than that 640K system's main memory.