completely missed the link for
list.cr.yp.to... duh!!!
-Original Message-
From: Bill Mullen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:06 AM
To: GNHLUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help...
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Brenda A. Bell wrote:
Enough
The 640 KB limit arose from the original IBM-PC design,
circa 1980.
Since the 8086 didn't even have a memory manager, hardware
needed to be
mapped directly into physical memory space, and IBM thought
640/384 was a
good place to draw the line between software and reserved memory.
