From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects
Date: 2000/04/14
Date: 2000-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38F6ADF0.8F8A9540@online.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cOsJ4.48135$U4.219264@news1.rdc1.az.home.com
Lou Zher wrote:
>Bill Gates _can_ be blamed for the 32MB HD limit (pre DOS 4). That certainly
>seemed short-sighted.
With hindsight it seems short sighted. I don't think anybody really knew at that
time how cheap and large harddrives could become.
If one only considers MSDOS, it was not a bad limit. When windows enters, then
it becomes an entirely different ballgame.
Greetings,
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2000-03-28 0:00 Article: The shift away from user directed projects Myles Wakeham
2000-03-29 0:00 ` �puma
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Ted Edwards
2000-03-29 0:00 ` �puma
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Charles E. Bortle, Jr.
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Lou Zher
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Charles E. Bortle, Jr.
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen [this message]
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Harlan Grove
2000-03-30 0:00 ` �puma
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