Yacine: His Mom Built Banking Software on 128MB RAM in the 90s — Scarcity of Compute Can Be a Differentiator
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-18
Yacine MTB shared that his mother built banking software and databases in the 1990s using Emacs on a machine with at most 128MiB of RAM. His takeaway: lacking compute is no excuse for weak results — constrained compute can actually be a differentiator.
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