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Scrollable weather radar with only 8MB RAM (i.imgur.com)
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Powered by ESP32-4848S040, an all-in-one ESP32-S3 + 4" 480x480 TFT display.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Old enough to remember when that was a good amount of RAM for a PC.

[-] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Eight megabytes and continuously swapping. ;)

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Weird that we used to have to use paging memory but Windows still felt way faster back then.

[-] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

At one point I was running BeOS on a Pentium 75 with 16MB RAM, later upgraded to a K6-2 266 with 128MB. Those machines, particularly the K6-2, felt faster than anything else I've ever used, and was better at certain things than any other computer I've ever used.

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