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Little note… the author talks about 8 GB… but this was eally 90s. Linus didn’t have eight megabytes of RAM. Gigabytes were unheard of.
I think the author was trying to compare how Linus didn’t have 8MB then, but 8GB being common today.
But yeah, I still agree that part could be worded better, so I added some suggested words:
Linus didn’t have a machine with 8MB RAM [back then]
[However] Today, machines with 8GB RAM [1024 times that of 8MB] are very common.