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Objectively untrue. Classic MacOS with GUI could be run under <1MB RAM. Linux without GUI both officially and actually required >2MB.


Linux in 896 kB: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~brians/comp/linux-lite.html


My first Mac had only 128k. The real drag was swapping floppies.


Yeah and everyone seems to forget how insanely slow Macs were.




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