From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 110df7,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid110df7,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects Date: 2000/04/14 Message-ID: <38F6ADF0.8F8A9540@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 610985001 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <0hHhOB6JC0shHWoiFENqSKhFoJol@4ax.com> <38e2abb2.13703965@news.hannover.sgh-net.de> <38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca> <8d5l1b$603$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 955690465 130.67.235.14 (Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:34:25 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 07:34:25 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.asm,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic Date: 2000-04-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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,