Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com said:
Software seems to grow to the maximum space it can occupy. I think in 1989 we were complaining about BSD not being able to fit on our VAX 750's boot drive anymore and we needed to put in a 40MB drive system instead. I expect by the 2040's we will be looking at petabyte drives and wondering how we can fit anything on it.
I first installed Linux on a 386SX (16MHz IIRC) system with a pair of 20MB hard drives and 2MB RAM... it took a little while. :) I think we ended up just using one drive for the root filesystem and the other for swap! This was probably 1992 or 1993, can't remember.
Today I installed Linux on a system wtih 48 CPU cores...