From:	Jim Van Nuland <jvn AT svpal DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: regarding dos 640kb barrier
Date:	Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:14:32 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.os.msdos.desqview yogesh <ypjofficial AT indiatimes DOT com> wrote:
> hi all!!

> i have one question whose convincing answer i couldn' find in any
> book.
> everybody knows that dos has 640kb barrier..and hence this makes dos
> inefficient...
> my question is if dos is such a weak operating system..then why
> somebody like microsoft(creater of ms dos)didn't redesigned dos so
  
  The 640k limit was invented by IBM; Microsoft adapted an earlier 
operating system to IBM's hardware.  

  At that time (1980) the Apple II was coin of the home computer realm, 
and a Really Big one had 64 kilobytes of memory.

  So IBM's people multiplied that by 10, and (at the time) it was
Amazingly Big.  Little did anyone know.  BTW, 4 years later the first Mac 
had (drum roll) 64 kb of memory!  

-- 
Jim Van Nuland, San Jose (California) Astronomical Association

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