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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 20:10:16 +0200
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On Fri, 13 May 2011 13:22:41 -0400, Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> MS-DOS has a lot of annoying limitations. But it is hard to imagine 
> anyone doing something much better given the constraints of the platform 
> that DOS was designed for.

RSX-11M. I used to work with another guy on a 64K machine: two editor
sessions, two FORTRAN-IV compilers, two linkers. I must admit, that was
tough, but when we got 128K, there was no problem anymore.

When first PCs came equipped with 640K it was a shock to me how this "huge"
amount of memory was wasted. For example, at the same time a 1MB VMS
machine was used to support 6 interactive LSE-users.

(These days I cannot compile some Ada programs under Windows 32-bit XP
because GNAT runs out of the 2GB memory limit! (:-))

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de