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On Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 11:56:35 AM UTC+2, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Honestly, there is little useful one could do in 64K. Remember what one=
=20
> famous thinker and epidemiologist said about 640K? [640K is 10 times=20
> more than 64K]=20

Well it depends...

On one hand there will be never enough memory (and cores) for the famous th=
inker's operating system just to run idle.

On the other hand you had some decades ago computers with everything stuffe=
d in 64KB. For instance: a 16KB ROM with an OS, a BASIC interpreter, I/O, f=
loating-point computations, etc.; 48KB RAM including the video memory. You =
had cool games and even a multi-window word processor on such a machine...