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Classic DOS barely took up kilobytes of memory. I think that qualifies as "tiny". Megabytes is downright bloated by comparison. Considering this is written in

Classic DOS barely took up kilobytes of memory. I think that qualifies as "tiny". Megabytes is downright bloated by comparison. Considering this is written in assembly, what is all that memory used for?

yincrash 11y ago
Well, for one thing, it's a graphical OS.
- groovy2shoes 11y ago
  What does that have to do with anything? Windows 3.1 had a minimum RAM requirement of 1 MB. The base model of the Apple Lisa 2, which featured a graphical OS, had 512 KB of RAM. It's possible to have graphics without requiring so much RAM.
tracker1 11y ago
Well, graphics rendering can take up many MB on its' own...
omarrx024 11y ago
Because I don't have a proper heap yet. And so everything takes up 2 MB pages.