Comment by 🚀 stack
Around 2005, most PCs typically had 512MB to 1GB, with typical RAM prices of maybe $100 a gig. I wonder if your experience had to do with excessive swapping?
Consider that your RAM was 1/32 of what was expected at the time. Today, with say 16GB being the norm/minimum, you would struggle getting anything working in 512MB, 1/32th of the norm.
Mar 12 · 8 weeks ago
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🐙 norayr [OP/mod] · Mar 12 at 21:20:
yes! still the oberon os from ETH would fit in less than 1mb, and the compiler would recompile itself in less than 1mb, actually in less than 512kb. i think in less than 256kb.
today i have some version of it in https://github.com/norayr/polpo - but i need to work more on it.
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ulmo 0.10.0 release — so there was this [https link] ulm's oberon system. i first tried it about 20 years ago. i liked it, because it was creating linux binaries that did not depend on c libraries. it was very slow, however, and required lots of memory. my computer with 32mb of ram (yes i was always poor) wasn't able to compile a helloworld. that wasn't what i was thinking proper oberon should be like. in part it was slow, as i recently confirmed, because the build process involved the db....