Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB to run on 90s comps
thunderbong
26 points
9 comments
April 12, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
hermannj314
I'd suggest just watching the YouTube video and supporting the content creator with likes and subscribes and not reading the ad-laden summary paraphrasing it.
nubinetwork
Let's be real, Windows 2000 ran reasonably well on only 128mb of memory... if it needed megabytes like modern apps, it wouldn't be very useful, especially when you're low on memory.