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Hi! Do you remember what the limit was that prompted this costly measure? Addressable code space from the CPU? How could there be a limit in the megabytes, not gigabytes? I don't get it.


Executable code space from the CPU was the limitation; I forget if this was lower-level software or hardware.




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