How old do you need to get to run in 4 megs? I'm running modern #NetBSD 11 in 10 megs (Mac LC II), and it's hardly usable for much, so I'm considering an older NetBSD for this machine.
NetBSD 11 running in 36 megs (Mac LC III+) is enough to compile large packages like Perl. Does Linux really need 64 megs just to run? Can you compile on it?
It is amazing to think about how much was possible in hundreds or thousands of bytes. We need to resurrect more of that magical software.
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2025-09-13 18:47:33 UTC
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