Yeah - and if you had certain video adapters you had to tell that driver
to leave alone certain blocks of memory.... and then when you got a CGA
monitor and you did something mundane like DIR your eyes would pop out
of your head from the flashing screen....
Remember the 30 MB drives on the PC AT - wondering how in the world
you'd ever use that much disk space?
"Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 5/11/2010 12:28 PM >>>
Expanded Memory Module. Allowed DOS to use memory above the (donât
panic;
thereâs more) 640K (actually, 1MB) barrier.
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breakfast.
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From: linuxdesktop4i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:linuxdesktop4i-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:22 PM
To: Discuss & plan a Linux based desktop environment for IBM i
Subject: Re: [LinuxDesktop4i] Macbook Pro 8GB kit
I don't remember that program specifically. I was first using IBM
computers
(where I was messing with them anyway) around the time of Windows 3.1.
Before that we had an Apple ][e.
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Den 11/05/10 19.56, Mike skrev:
Just imagine DOS on 8GB of RAM. It would have been running the
programs before you hit enter to start them!
You wish. Forgot all about EMM386?
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