Re: LZ: More RAM
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AlanBailey@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 96-09-03 18:09:12 EDT, you write:
>
> That would be the first 640k of RAM on a dos system. Extended memory needs
> another mem manager and is slower to access. Every program also requires
> some conventional mem.
>
> 640k conventional
> 384k upper
> 1meg-? extended
>
> If this is wrong tell me
> Alan B.
>
> >Do you use Windows95, Mac (barf), or UNIX (I think. I don't use it)? None of
>
> >them have that barrier for anything (Windows95 has that barrier for old
> >programs, of course, but each one gets 640k, not every program sharing
> 640k).
> >
> >----------
> >From: owner-list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org on behalf of
> >vikings@undergnd.metrobbs.com
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 1996 12:18 PM
> >To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
> >Subject: Re: LZ: More RAM
> >
> >
> >IN>> "Isn't 28K enough for anybody"
> >IN>> by Carl Turner
> >IN>>
> >IN>>I think bill gates said something simalar
> >
> >IN>He sure did. The gist of it was "Nobody will ever need more than 640K of
> >IN>memory." And that's why we still have the 640K barrier to this day.
> >
> >IN>--timmyt
> >
> >
> >I'm confused. 640k of what? It can't be RAM or hardrive. So what is it?
> >
> >David
> >
> >
> >
the last time I checked, this was the ZSHELL mailing list, not the Bill
Gates ram chat list, keep that stuff isolated to personal mail, this
mailbox is clogged enough as it is!!!
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