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jerf ◴[15 Sep 25 14:12 UTC] No.45249992[source]▶

The mismatch between the Ancient Specs of Yore is kind of interesting. The Commodore 64 had 64KB of RAM, but that RAM was attached to an 8-bit, 1MHz CPU. This thing has call it half the RAM of a Commodore 64, but it's attached to a 32-bit 24MHz CPU the 1980s could only dream of. And it's disposable in 2025. Pretty impressive in a weird way.

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justincormack ◴[15 Sep 25 14:28 UTC] No.45250165[source]▶

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Its only got 3k of RAM, 24k of flash. Although modern flash is sometimes the same bandwidth as memory was if you go back a bit, although not latency of course.

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1. briansm ◴[16 Sep 25 09:46 UTC] No.45260116[source]▶

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The old 1980s computers also had no equivalent of flash storage though, the RAM had to store the program being run as well as act as scratch-space.

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