> Remember Netbooks?
Remember? I just wore-out one (fan squeal) and bought another.
9" Dell Inspiron 910 , 1GB RAM, 8GB SSD
botfap> You can have have a minimal desktop and terminal in < 40 MB RAM
That Dell 910 has a moderately nice GUI desktop (XP) in 1GB RAM. And in its day it ran MS WORD, Netscape, and other non-trivial code.
In the past I've had respectable desktops on <1Meg machines. The original Macintosh for one, but also an Amstrad GUI and our friend the Amiga. 1/40,000th of 40MB.