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 -- The next thing I say to you will be true. The last thing I said was false. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
