Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Nothing except that I'm amazed at how fast disk sizes grow.

  Not only do they grow a lot, they get incredibly cheap. Same for RAM.

  I remember when I bought 4 megabytes of extra RAM for my 486. It costed
something like (when converted) 250 US dollars. Nowadays I can buy 1 gigabyte
of RAM with less than half that amount of money.
  (Somehow the cost of RAM plummeted at an incredible rate at some point.)

> It used to be 32 meg was as huge as it got on a desktop machine. Now 
> that won't even be enough RAM to boot a modern desktop OS, let alone a 
> enough disk space.

  I think you could perfectly well fit an ultra-small linux distro which
uses a light-weight window manager in a bootable 32MB hard disk. If it's
light-weight enough, it probably could even run with 32MB of RAM.

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                                                          - Warp

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