<<...In the old days, the MS-DOS conventional memory limit of 640 kilobytes (KB) restricted the size of your programs. You could use various overlay management techniques and extended/expanded memory managers to allow larger programs, but all had shortcomings. An 80386SX-based (or better) computer usually has 4 megabytes (MB) or more of memory, and its CPU has built-in memory management hardware. Windows, together with the Visual C++ compiler, offers additional memory management features. The net result is that memory usually isn't a problem anymore...>>
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