From: "Lou Zher" <abuse@127.0.0.1>
Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects
Date: 2000/04/13
Date: 2000-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cOsJ4.48135$U4.219264@news1.rdc1.az.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8d5l1b$603$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net
Charles E. Bortle, Jr. <cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:8d5l1b$603$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net...
> Hello All,
>
> Interesting quote Ted :-) Reminds me of the quote about
> how nobody would ever need more than 4k of memory
> (I think that was Bill Gates, but I cannot remember...I need
> more memory ;-)
"Nobody will ever need more than 640KB of memory" - IBM engineers, when
deciding to top-load the adapter area to 0xA0000 on the PC.
If you are thinking of the 64KB limit, that is only a limit of what a 16-bit
register can index. That's Intel.
Bill Gates _can_ be blamed for the 32MB HD limit (pre DOS 4). That certainly
seemed short-sighted.
-LZ
[ Do not try to e-mail me. - It is a spam trap. ]
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-28 0:00 Article: The shift away from user directed projects Myles Wakeham
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Harlan Grove
2000-03-30 0:00 ` �puma
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 [this message]
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Charles E. Bortle, Jr.
2000-04-14 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
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