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Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had
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It does some of the tricks that .kkreiger uses, including compressing the binary.
And at least according to a few reports, it uses 500MB of ram:
https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/TinyRetroPad/issues/21