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Linux.Conf.Au trip report

Posted Jan 22, 2004 4:11 UTC (Thu) by vblum (guest, #1151)
Parent article: Linux.Conf.Au trip report

"though you can't do much on such a system" (1MB system ...) ... despite all Linux's appeal,
it is still amazing what could in fact be done on an Amiga 500 with 512K RAM ....

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Posted Jan 22, 2004 17:53 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Or a Apple ][e and 64k.. However it is also how much was put into the hardware to get around the memory limitations. A PC with 1 meg of ram will never compare to a Amiga and 256k due to that.