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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by mcguire on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:03PM (#19148053)
Not to mention Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.
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Re:Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Cou... by magoghm on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:45PM (#19148898)
Eight Megs? On the machine I was using 36 years ago, each process had a limit of 64 KB for code + 64 KB for data. It was 8086 based and that was called the small-memory model. Later versions of the OS added support for the medium-memory model which could support 192 KB of code + 64 KB of data.
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