Re: LZ: More RAM
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In a message dated 96-09-03 18:09:12 EDT, you write:
That would be the first 640k of RAM on a dos system. Extended memory needs
another mem manager and is slower to access. Every program also requires
some conventional mem.
640k conventional
384k upper
1meg-? extended
If this is wrong tell me
Alan B.
>Do you use Windows95, Mac (barf), or UNIX (I think. I don't use it)? None of
>them have that barrier for anything (Windows95 has that barrier for old
>programs, of course, but each one gets 640k, not every program sharing
640k).
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>vikings@undergnd.metrobbs.com
>Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 1996 12:18 PM
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>Subject: Re: LZ: More RAM
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>IN>> "Isn't 28K enough for anybody"
>IN>> by Carl Turner
>IN>>
>IN>>I think bill gates said something simalar
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>IN>He sure did. The gist of it was "Nobody will ever need more than 640K of
>IN>memory." And that's why we still have the 640K barrier to this day.
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>IN>--timmyt
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>I'm confused. 640k of what? It can't be RAM or hardrive. So what is it?
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>David
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