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Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

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518 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 14:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.193s | source
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trollbridge ◴[06 Dec 25 15:15 UTC] No.46173936[source]▶
Not to disrespect this, but it used to be entirely normal to have a GUI environment on a machine with 2MB of RAM and a 40MB disk.

Or 128K of ram and 400 kb disk for that matter.

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1. BobbyTables2 ◴[07 Dec 25 06:13 UTC] No.46179554[source]▶
I agree. That system even had MS word in something like 2-5MB of storage.

Windows 3.1 was only something like 16MB of storage.

Imagine the Cray supercomputer in those days being used to run a toaster or doorbell…