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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: automagic overlays?
Message-ID: <2865@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 90 21:23:12 GMT
References: <11043@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <1939.273e786b@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <1939.273e786b@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:

| Boy, have you led a sheltered life.  Intel / IBM / Microsoft created
| a memory limit of 640K for a very large universe of people who have
| money to spend on software.  

  At the time the 8086 was designed, we were running VAXen with less
than a MB in them, so the 1MB real memory limit didn't look too bad for
a "toy computer" use. Early versions of MS-DOS (not PC-DOS) used all the
memory there was, and I recall running at least 768k in a Tandy 2000.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.