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=1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_NUMERIC_TLD, INVALID_MSGID,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: "Lou Zher" Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects Date: 2000/04/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 610889383 References: <0hHhOB6JC0shHWoiFENqSKhFoJol@4ax.com> <38e2abb2.13703965@news.hannover.sgh-net.de> <38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca> <8d5l1b$603$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.az.home.com 955668744 24.15.49.68 (Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:32:24 PDT) Organization: @Home Network X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Lou Zher" NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:32:24 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.asm,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic Date: 2000-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Charles E. Bortle, Jr. 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. ]