Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:37:51 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:

My god, we used to NFS serve home directories for a couple of
biggish labs of Linux machines from a Sparc server with 32M RAM in
the 1990's :-) It's amazing how little grunt you need for some jobs.

Back then, servers were considered the big, grunty machines, while clients
were expected to be somewhat wimpy and lightweight in comparison.

Nowadays, a typical web browser is far more complex and resource-hungry
than any web server ...