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henry_flower) wrote2015-07-22 12:20 am
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Archaeology News. Today I've found on a dvd-rw (remember those?) a vmware VM from 2007 w/ fbsd 6. I
Archaeology News.
Today I've found on a dvd-rw (remember those?) a vmware VM from 2007 w/ fbsd 6. It was a snapshot of my primary VM where I happily did all the work. It's astonishing that the disc w/ the vm is still readable. But what is even more astonishing are the vm properties:
- total size is 8GB, zipped under 4.7GB to fit on a dvd-rw disc (& it did fit).
- ram was set to 256MB; the value is so low, because in 2007 I had a laptop w/ 1GB & vista on it. I think I had an upgrade to 3GB in the end of that year. Nevertheless, 256MB & it was working jolly good! Today if you set 2GB for a VM it'll be enough only to start a Chrome w/ 1 open tab & devtools, tops.
Today I've found on a dvd-rw (remember those?) a vmware VM from 2007 w/ fbsd 6. It was a snapshot of my primary VM where I happily did all the work. It's astonishing that the disc w/ the vm is still readable. But what is even more astonishing are the vm properties:
- total size is 8GB, zipped under 4.7GB to fit on a dvd-rw disc (& it did fit).
- ram was set to 256MB; the value is so low, because in 2007 I had a laptop w/ 1GB & vista on it. I think I had an upgrade to 3GB in the end of that year. Nevertheless, 256MB & it was working jolly good! Today if you set 2GB for a VM it'll be enough only to start a Chrome w/ 1 open tab & devtools, tops.
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