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Re:Out of Memory Error – The RAM Shortage of 1988 (2016) by guenthert on Sunday May 16, 2021 @01:27PM (#27175311)
I don't think there were 16Mb chips in '85. Google finds that Samsung produced the first such in '92.

2MiB total was clearly meant (at that time 256Kb chips were common).

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