Grumman-581 writes:

I can remember running multiuser UNIX machines with that much memory
and they ran *very* well...

In those days, programmers tried to write efficient code. And there
was no elaborate, transparent, three-dimensional, glowing, glistening
graphic user interface to drive (the GUI can easily consume 80% of
processor power on a Windows system).

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