Since I knew it ran fine with just the 8MB, I set up a RAM disk of 32MB and put the Windows swap file in it. Windows absolutely insisted (and maybe still does) that there be a swap file, so why not put that back in RAM?

It worked perfectly, but that memory was better used for other things, so the cursed setup didn't last all that long.

Edits: Typo city baby.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your comment

(not a typo)

Looks inside

Typo city baby.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You should have seen it when the typos were still in it. Now try to figure out whether the parenthetical was there before the edits.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Ah i didn't see it before edits, but still a hit funny to see it

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I would have loved to have 32 MB RAM. I was stuck with a 486 with 16 MB RAM and 600ish MB HDD until 2003 or so, because we couldn't afford to upgrade. I think I upgraded to a second-hand Pentium 3 at that point, and upgraded the RAM with mismatched RAM modules (different brands, different capacities) salvaged from systems my school was throwing away.

A simpler time. I miss it sometimes. Neither me (as a teenager) nor my parents had any money, but I did have enough free time to learn how to code and play shareware games. It gave me something to do that didn't cost much money. Over 20 years later and I'm still coding.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

systems my school was throwing away

I wish people threw away perfectly usable stuff in places I could easily find them.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The computers they were throwing away were broken, and they didn't have a use for PC-133 RAM any more.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 23 hours ago

Over here, people usually sell that level of stuff to some known parts dealer for pretty cheap.
I am just a hoarder who has kept my last few phones hoping to some day be able to use their high quality cameras with something else.