On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:09:30 +0000
Adrian Caspersz  wrote:

> On 13/02/2021 10:38, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>
>   if that's not enough then it's a very sad
> > testimonial to bloat - some of the workstations we all used to lust
> > after had as much as a thousandth of that much memory.
>
> True. Think though the safest minimum now is to have some sort of source
> control system while ye are hacking, or continuous backup and some 'order'

 I've been using source code control as a minimum since that meant
SCCS and shell scripts (mid 1980s), even coming bang up to date with git
doesn't eat much resources.

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