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Not quite, but close. 12 megabytes is still much, much more than is easily explainable. Here is xclock on a 36 megabyte m68030, hosted on the same machine (so be patient).

On the other hand, modern OSes do a pretty good job of hiding resource abuse with excellent memory management.

http://elsie.zia.io/xclock.png




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