Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

[Bug Hunter]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:

> 
> A guess:  8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the
> 640k "regular" memory.  (Thank you, Bill.)
> 

  Actually (and I don't like Micro$oft), Bill didn't have much to do with
this.  IBM designed the PC with 10 times as much memory as the then 
current machines (the z80, CP/M crowd), and use the area from 640K to the
top, which was 1 megabyte, for video cards, BIOS, extra card bioses for
scsi controllers, etc.  MSDOS simply dealt with it.

  when Intel came out with the 286, it was really bad.  MSDOS did not
change to work with it (thanks, Bill).  Third parties adapted to it, and
M$ was brought along kicking and screaming. Windows started working with
it, and now we have Windows 2000.

  Note that versions of  Linux will run in as little as 4 megabytes, and
do something useful.  Not M$ products.

bug