Thing is, this context is way out of the norm for a great many HN readers. The notion of a general-purpose home computer without rapid-access storage, and hence

Thing is, this context is way out of the norm for a great many HN readers. The notion of a general-purpose home computer without rapid-access storage, and hence without virtual memory, is so foreign to the younger crowd that the question is fair and the answer is almost unbelievable in their experience. There's nothing to prompt a web search, as what's being searched for is at odds with axiomatic presumptions.