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    • Perhyte
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      41 year ago

      It probably just didn’t mark that memory as “used” in the task manager.

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿
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      1 year ago

      I discovered this about 20yrs ago and there’s been a lot of drugs & drink since then.

      I do remember I could open my shit-hot 256Mb RAM desktop with Windows XP taskmanager and it shows a whopping 128Mb free RAM. 😎

      Then I’d boot into my ‘733T H4X0r’ Suse Linux 7.3 and top would show 5Mb free RAM. 😱

      This caused much upset until I found out the two OS’s have (had?) fundamentally different memory utilisation philosophies.

      May not be the case anymore but it was late 90s/early 00s.