Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[jollysea@chaos.social]

@fribbledom only to suggest you buy a weirdly shaped object. they don't even use all that data they collect in a way that would advance anything!

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom
I can sadly confirm that figure. A docker container with a scraper worker that starts internally a browser and does the whole Chaptcha bullshit comes at about 1.5-2.0GB depending on the website, so a fully interactive website with some history on memory at 2.0gb sounds reasonable with Chrome.

And it doesn't sound too bad my router has 64GB nowadays.

But then I remember my first computer had 64KB RAM (and wasn't that huge) and a super fast 1Mhz 8 bit CPU.

[liseo@kuupiaq.social]

@guilevi @fribbledom also to give you more adds, for sox.

[benofbrown@toot.cat]

@fribbledom I somehow deleted AUTOEXEC.BAT once

[sundancer@metalhead.club]

@fribbledom "do I really need the CD driver? can I go without for game X?"

Gods what time that was.

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@dbrgn @fribbledom Boom! Boom!

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom Dual core CPU?

[karlheinzhaslip@climatejustice.social]

@gloriouscow @fribbledom obviously, Lockheed Martin Pride Socks.

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@NormanDunbar @hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom
Whatever the opposite of SMP is

[gillinger@mas.to]

@fribbledom @NormanDunbar
Files=40 Yes!

[guacamole@chaos.social]

@fribbledom but does the Browser tab require EMS vor XMS?

[martinlentink@mastodon.social]

@brouhaha @fribbledom We all should. Want my data? Want my compute and memory? You pay for it.

[nomadicrobot@mas.to]

@fribbledom DOS 6.22 memmaker; good times

[statsguy@mas.to]

@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.

[clonedhuman@mastodon.social]

@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?'

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!

[artemis@climatejustice.social]

@BoloMKXXVIII @clonedhuman @fribbledom SO MUCH SPACE

[bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom Which was it now? Expanded memory or extended memory?

[kastasmykolas@river.group.lt]

@lord @fribbledom and this amount of "partners" is considered low, by current standards ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@fribbledom
> fit everything into 640 KB

There 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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess