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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
Yep, after all, I'm doing some fairly heavy-duty image processing via ImageMagick for the screensavers hack, and it's been working wonders  . |
What you can do is limited only by your imagination, rarely by the hardware.
My first computer had 256 BYTES of RAM and I did awesome things on it. If you think 256 byte programs are impossible for anything interesting, you have not been following the "
demoscene" since the dawn of computers. There are lots of 256 byte programs that do amazing things:
http://hugi.scene.org/online/hugi35/...ound-table.htm
And if you have a whole 256KB to spare, check out debris (177KB) here:
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244
Here is a youtube recording of that realtime 177KB demo:
And remember that we had BASIC interpreters that loaded and ran on our massive memory (at the time) 1K RAM computers, with room left over for useful programs:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9154319
So yeah, a few dozen megabytes is plenty if you know how to program old-school style.