Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom 640 KB? Luxury!
When I were a lad, I used to have to write x=10 rather than x = 10 so that I could fit everything into 16 KB.
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@fribbledom I hated that the guy in the electronics shop thought he had to explain usb stick sizes to me because I was a clueless old lady, not because my first computer had 16K of RAM and a cassette tape. 128 gig of storage the size of a car key blows my mind.
@artemis @fribbledom I still remember the first person I knew who had a 1 gig hard drive. I was so confused--'what are you going to do with all that space?'
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@artemis @fribbledom I still remember the first person I knew who had a 1 gig hard drive. I was so confused--'what are you going to do with all that space?'
@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!
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@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!
@BoloMKXXVIII @clonedhuman @fribbledom SO MUCH SPACE
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Which was it now? Expanded memory or extended memory?
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social Me and my 1320 partners are asking your permission to put a cookie in your browser to grant you the privilege to display 5KB of our precious ai generated content on our 85MB web page.
@lord @fribbledom and this amount of "partners" is considered low, by current standards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom
> fit everything into 640 KBThere were times before computers got that unimaginble huge amounts of RAM (640kB).
Then we (I am a greybeard) were forced to code our silicon chess players into the 1kB, GUI included:
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@12thRITS @fribbledom No, this is exec.bat. For autoexec.bat, replace it with an AI.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom
128Gb of RAM :
$229.99 as of 2025-02-16
$669.99 as of 2025-12-29
$869.99 as of 2026-02-18
$1,099.99 as of 2026-03-11
$1,199.99 as of 2026-05-21Dual 1TB NVMs :
$104.99 as of 2025-03-26
$282.99 as of 2025-12-29
$299.00 as of 2026-03-21
$292.00 as of 2026-06-17I bought at the right time! I had been hesitating on making the investment in rebuilding my home server . . .
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@12thRITS @fribbledom this one never gets old
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@12thRITS @fribbledom oh shit! It took me while
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom I recently saw a video from an ex MS developer who recreated notepad in under 2.5 KB (I think) and I don't want to know what the current size of it is.
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@fribbledom
it's infuriating what they do with all the precious RAM we let them allocate@wolf480pl @fribbledom taxing programs for ram use because they're only going to use it badly
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom GB used to be for permanent file storage, not so chrome could show me the wrong opening hours for a local shop
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom And if you had some EMS or XMS the hours spent trying to LOADHIGH to make use of all that extravagance.
And to think people criticised the "bloat" of VBRUN300.DLL back in the day.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom But I thought 640KB was enough for anyone?
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@fribbledom But I thought 640KB was enough for anyone?
Only when barefoot.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Extra funny when running Linux: the whole OS starts up using <850 MB. Starts Firefox, opens one tab: Memory use now 3.5GB.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Were they Winsocks?
I‘ll see myself out.
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@fribbledom Were they Winsocks?
I‘ll see myself out.
Don't Trumpet your ignorance on this platform.
