Adam Langley schrieb:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:11:36PM +0100, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > That is the same kind of thinking that created the 640k
> > memory limitation in Intel chips ie. "nobody will ever want to do
> > something that we haven't thought of".
> 
> Intel? There has never been a 640K limit on Intel chips. DOS imposed the 640K
> limit. And still does even on 36-bit address line chips.
8086:
 20 bit adress space -> 2^20 = 1048576 bytes
i.e. 640k RAM, BIOS, graphic-RAM, extension-BIOSes...

you can access more RAM (EMS...) but the memory you can directly access to,
and that can holde executed code is limited to 1MB

> 
> AGL


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