The problem with programmers these days isn’t that they can’t fit a line printer driver in a couple of spare bytes in high memory, it’s that they won’t even try.
That's a Silicon Valley thing, dude.
Japan is polite and traditional. Here, they just nicely asked you to go into the office garden and commit Seppuku.
@computer Back in the 90s, at the height of the editor wars, SuSE Linux described the emacs package with the backronym: Eight Megabytes Always Continuously Swapping
Those were the days when 8MiB was a dis, not a flex.
My first web design job had the following constraint: max 10kByte per page, total, including all formatting and graphics.
Today I look at current web monsters and can only shake my head in disgust.