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tbolt on June 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Atom 1.0

Thirty years ago 1MB of RAM was $800+ ...I would have complained too.

_19qg on June 26, 2015 [–]

Of course, that was the reasoning behind it. RAM was expensive and allocating all the RAM on an Unix box to one process was 'unpopular'. Especially when there were more than one time-shared user on the machine.

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