>>>>>The top-of-the-line SyncPhone will have Intel® Atom™ x7-Z8700 2.40GHz 8GB RAM 64bit , 128gig + MicroSD - that sounds pretty decent to me - better specs than the tablets I own now actually. Obviously not a power-house, but certainly usable.
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>>>Agreed. I think my first 286 had 640MB RAM and a 20 GB drive. Most phones these days outperform it.
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>>divide 2 last numbers by 2**10 ;-))
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>>My first Intel (386DX) had whooping 8 MB RAM, 60 MB HD and was running OS/2 to access the memory, as extended memory spec for DOS was not reliable across machines - Desqview QEMM did not always install... And it cost about as much as a not too shabby used car
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>QEMM eventually (by 1995, IIRC) had a very decent configuration tweaker, which would use just about the last available byte after, perhaps, six reboots. It was an amazing piece of engineering, something like an intelligent tarp which would find holes in the roof and cover them all. And the leaky roof was then DOS 6, IIRC.
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>I remember I was taken to a local newspaper to tweak a 486 machine so it would have enough memory to comfortably run Ventura and not crash six times a day. Won a dinner.

I had already implemented since 88 a quite demanding program based on the linear adress space of the 6800 in Mega ST. Had to port to Intel architecture - earliest way was OS/2, later DOS extender or NT in DOS shell. But up to early 90ies OS/2 was the only really stable thing accessing that "much" memory on Intel.