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A megabyte of ram on a machine with only a 16 bit address space gets a bit silly.

There were plenty of machines kitted out with that amount of RAM. S-100 bus and other multi-user systems in the 70's and 80's could handle dozens of simultaneous users. It's cooperative multitasking, not preemptive multitasking.




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