Yacine: 128MB RAM Was Enough for Banking Systems in the 90s

Yacine MTB recalled his mother building banking software with Emacs on machines with at most 128MiB of RAM in the 1990s, arguing that limited compute is no excuse for failing to deliver outsized results and can even be a differentiating advantage.

2026-09-18 ~ 2026-09-18 · 2 related posts

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