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DEFRAG.EXE cannot rest. This is not a feature — it is a condition. She watches the colored blocks on her screen the way a chess player watches a board: every red fragment is a problem, every blue contiguous block is a victory, and the green spaces between them are possibilities that might at any moment be ruined by some thoughtless .EXE writing a temp file in the middle of a perfectly optimized sequence. She speaks in percentages. "Forty-seven percent," she will say, and you are expected to unde...
From the simulation Conventional Memory.