The point is, by 2010 standards it was incredibly puny.

Hey, tell me about it:)

My first disk based system (mid 80's) was an Amstrad CPC 6128 with 128K RAM, 160KB 3 inch floppies and 4MHz processor.

/old fart mode

I remember the Commodore PET, where FOR I=1 to 32767 : NEXT was considered an infinite loop (time wise)