finding yourself looking at a 32-bit processor with 29-bit physical addresses and going "huh. 512MB of physical memory doesn't seem like much."

contextalising

  • it's... only 8x less than the absolute physical maximum you could use
  • we ran entire operating systems in smaller
  • it's 21x more than what windows 98 required
  • hell, it's 4x more than what windows xp required

i think you'll be fine with little a linux kernel


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in reply to @bark's post:

Modern Web Design where everything is 20 MB of JavaScript that never finishes loading kinda blows out what we used to think was a reasonable amount of RAM. If you do not need a web browser in an application then the machine's RAM requirements drop dramatically