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> 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM

And, that Snapdragon is 1.4 GHz, I think.

That's enough for a bare-bones WordPress installation.

My first laptop had a 100 MB had drive, 8 MB of RAM, and a 25 MHz processor, and I remember running a web server on it too, in addition to Windows 3.11 and word processors and other software. One of those dongles would have been godlike power back in those days.

I feel like somewhere along the way scripting got out of hand. Stuff like Wordpress is absurdly resource intensive.



Let's not overhype those days. I had a P1 166MHz and playing an MP3 meant everything else would have to be closed, if I'd open Word the song would stutter. Not all modern processing power is wasted.


I could play mp3s on a 66Mhz CPU, though yes other tasks would make the playback stutter.


I was doing it on Win 95 or 98, maybe the OS was using more RAM than yours?


Possibly, I was on System 7.1.


Hm, thanks for the idea, but I rather want a minimal node environment on that usb dongle server now.




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