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    1. …in reply to @n1ckfg
      @n1ckfg nope actually virtual in this case. modern OSes will lie to every process and give them a view of "all system memory" as their own, which is not physically true. processes cannot see each other's memory for security reasons.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
  1. …in reply to @ra
    @n1ckfg in older OSes like DOS that could not multitask process memory more or less *was* physical memory, i believe. running a DOS program basically gave it control of the whole computer and all its resources -- including memory --aside from some basic OS background stuff?