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What is the maximum amount of physical memory?

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The physical memory of a computer refers to the actual RAM of the system.

The BTV operating system has only a 16-bit physical address, so the maximum physical memory is:

216=65536, or  64-KB2^{16}=65536,\ \text{or}\ \ 64\text{-KB}

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