>best computer had a 500 MHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM
500 MHz cpus started showing up in servers with 21164 in 1996 in boxes maxing out at 2GB ram, and on desktops with 1999 Pentium 3 plugged into 1998 chipset (440BX) already supporting 1GB.
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