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 ____________________________________________________
