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Stallman : The Atari 1040ST still doesn't have quite enough memory. The next Atari machine, I expect, will run it. I also think that future Ataris will have some forms of memory mapping. Of course, I am not designing the software to run on the kinds of computers that are prevalent today. I knew when I started this project it was going to take a few years. I therefore decided that I didn't want to make a worse system by taking on the additional challenge of making it run in the currently constrained environment. So instead I decided I'm going to write it in the way that seems the most natural and best. I am confident that in a couple of years machines of sufficient size will be prevalent. In fact, increases in memory size are happening so fast it surprises me how slow most of the people are to put in virtual memory; I think it is totally essential.