Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpihoah!winch
From: winch@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bill Winchester)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640kb limit on DOS?
Message-ID: <9330007@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Dec 88 16:50:02 GMT
References: <8043@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Lines: 11

The first computer that I had hands on use of was an Adage, Inc. Ambilog 200
advertised as having a 4 micro-second cycle time, 8k of 30 bit words of core,
and a 300 char/sec paper tape reader/punch.  This was in 1966.

I am writing this on an HP 9000/350, 25mh clock, 8mb of ram, 150mb disk.  This
system runs Xwindows on a 17in hi res color monitor.  The cpu sits under my
desk in a rack.

I knew practically every gate and flip-flop, and every line of operating
system code on the Adage.  I'm not sure that my 350 will last long enough as
a product for me learn this much about it.