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LitusSaxonicum
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16 Gb isn't enough for John Campbell! And there's doubt that Gates even said the 640k quote. The first PCs available in the UK (IBM refused to sell theirs here for a while) were Sirius (8088) and Apricot (8086 and 80286 variants). The 640k limit was a design feature of the IBM PC. Sirius and Apricot PCs could access up to 896k or 960k depending on model, with the 80286 machine up to 16 Mb in Xenix mode (Unix-style). My Apricot PC was fully equipped with 960k and when running MS DOS it used it all. It just wasn't all that compatible with the IBM PC, especially at BIOS level - just a whole lot better.
I came across a 16k system the other day that does things you can't do with a 16Gb PC system - like work through an EMP.
Seriously, isn't it about time that USE_RGB_COLOURS@(.true.) was the Clearwin+ default? I forgot to put it in a quick hack the other day, and spent 2 hours working out what I had done wrong because some things showed and other things didn't.
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PaulLaidler
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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DanRRight
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| Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 1:44 am Post subject: Re: |
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| LitusSaxonicum wrote: |
| And there's doubt that Gates even said the 640k quote. Eddie |
To scatter your doubts i will note that he has not been changed even today. I understand 8088 had MM unit limitations 1MB. But today address space of processors is 48bits or 256 TB. So Bill & Co are very good at looking busy working very hard to get us all larger limit. Windows 7 had Starter: 2GB Home Basic: 8GB Home Premium: 16GB Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate: 192GB. How much it cost to make it larger? After they switched to 64bits - nothing. What is the limit of 64bit system? A close to billion times larger. Remind me what is the memory size of mosquito? @#$% salespeople from computing, they sell a vapor. Being a joke for all their history MS actually was intentionally made as a monopoly by organized finances not by PC revolution alone, as you well understand. That's the major economic design trick Chinese learned well from US and commy theory and implementing now.
The physical memory limits for 64bit Windows 8 Professional 512 GB. Almost 640GB ROTFL. Just the "Windows 8" has 128 GB limit. So, seems "128GB ought to be enough for anyone". That's today's 640K. LOL 640K joke is inherent MS motto |
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