Re: LZ: More RAM


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Re: LZ: More RAM



vikings@undergnd.metrobbs.com wrote:
> 
> IN>At 02:18 PM 9/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
> IN>>
> IN>>IN>>                     "Isn't 28K enough for anybody"
> IN>>IN>>                                           by Carl Turner
> IN>>IN>>
> IN>>IN>>I think bill gates said something simalar
> IN>>
> IN>>IN>He sure did.  The gist of it was "Nobody will ever need more than 640K o
> IN>>IN>memory."  And that's why we still have the 640K barrier to this day.
> IN>>
> IN>>IN>--timmyt
> IN>>
> IN>>
> IN>>I'm confused. 640k of what? It can't be RAM or hardrive. So what is it?
> 
> IN>Are you being serious?  If not, then forgive me, but WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR
> IN>THE LAST DECADE?  640k is the conventional memory limit on a PC.  And the
> IN>best part (thanks to Microsfot), it is still there and probably will be unti
> IN>the entire memory structure in DOS is rewritten.
> 
> IN>--   Scott Rein
> IN>     srein@rain.org
> Dos is going to be changed or in non existence because in 2008 Dos will
> crash and you won't be able to even boot your computer.
why is that?
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