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Comment by kevin_thibedeau

You could run a serviceable Linux console on 4MB RAM back then. X11 was also doable though it would be swapping heavily with less than 8MB.

Nowadays it would be more practical to add ESP32 support to uClinux and skip the unnecessary performance hit of the VM.

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