This has strong "How much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?" vibes.

Back in my day 100MB was all you had for all your compute, and somehow programs still ran.

whynotmaybe 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Back in my days, I had to remove the mouse driver from autoexec so that microprose grand pirx had 600kb of ram to start

	▲	SV_BubbleTime 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Had to get a ride to drive floppies with corrected config.sys and autoexec.bat files around to friends. Things weren’t actually worse.

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kevin_thibedeau 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

When RAM was $100 per MB that would be $10,000. You can do a weather app in much less provided you use native code.

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big85 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

LumiWeather for AmigaOS runs on 2 MB RAM.

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drdaeman 2 hours ago | parent [-]

ESP32 in my OpenSprinkler pulls the weather (among a few more things it does) just fine and it has 520 kilobytes or RAM total.

	▲	2Gkashmiri 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Windows really I'd shitty for "assuming" unlimited ram, storage, processing, internet budget for them to get away with it. They "could" make it easy but why bother? I assume next update will make calculator 1 gb download, 2gb ram resident and ADS

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keicwifjwud 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> Back in my day

Back in my day systems used to be a lot simpler too. These “back in my mind” comparisons show a clear lack of understanding of the subject matter. 1996 apps are not the same as 2026 apps. Expectations are different. Design languages are different. Even the UX is entirely different.

1GB is clearly overkill, no question. But ~100MB to ~300MB is perfectly reasonable and you know it.