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Once upon a time, when I was an young and naive Amiga user I used to mock Windows entusiast for their sheer waste of resources: it needed a whopping 4 megabytes of memory! When I switched to Linux I started to enjoy the benefits of memory protection and a real mult-user operative systems and I…<\/p>\n
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