▲ 47 ▼ Scrollable weather radar with only 8MB RAM (i.imgur.com) submitted 4 months ago by yucandu@lemmy.world to c/diyelectronics@programming.dev 9 comments fedilink hide all child comments Powered by ESP32-4848S040, an all-in-one ESP32-S3 + 4" 480x480 TFT display.
[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago (2 children) Eight megabytes and continuously swapping. ;) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) Weird that we used to have to use paging memory but Windows still felt way faster back then. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 point 4 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 4 months ago (1 child) Weird that we used to have to use paging memory but Windows still felt way faster back then. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 point 4 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 point 4 months 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. permalink fedilink source parent