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4.7 mhz is probably not correct. That was the speed of the original 8088/8086 machines (IBM PC 5150 class, etc.)

You would need at least a 386 to support 32 megs of RAM. Those were at least 16 mhz.

Heh... see, it was the distant past, fading from my memory. You're absolutely right. The machine in question was an early pentium box as I recall, and the fastest machine I'd ever used at the time.

Could have been under-clocked by (div 4) just to torture people into writing efficient code.

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