Ron Hunter-Duvar writes: > On April 10, 2006 10:35, paul wrote: >> John Bowden wrote: >> >JoeHill writes: >> >>Ah, no one really needs more than 640K ;-) >> > >> >That's what the egg heads at IBM said when they were putting >> >together the spec for the first personal PC. But they also said >> >there was no market for personal PCs after all Mainframes that >> >fill whole rooms are the way to go my boy! >> >> Afraid not, it was W. Gates III in 1981 who said ""Who in their right >> mind would ever need more than 640k of ram?" > ... > > Actually, that restriction was engineered right into the 8086/8088 processors > by Intel. IBM's at fault too for choosing such a brain-damaged architecture > over the vastly superior Motorola processors of the time. But it was Gates > who made that immortal quote. > > Us old-timers can remember all the fun with DOS low-memory/high-memory, > expanded memory versus extended memory, tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat > to try to squeeze out the last few bytes of low-memory to run our favourite > programs. Those were the good old days (Not!). > > -- > Ron (ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net) > Opinions expressed here are all mine > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________
Yes I can remember writing my own autoexec bat and config sys files with different settings for different games, with / with out mouse or CD or high / extended memory! registered Linux user number 414240 Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and he was going to blow them up ! --------------------------------------------- Free POP3 Email from www.Gawab.com Sign up NOW and get your account @gawab.com!! ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
