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- From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
- Subject: Re: Bill Gates & Microsoft BASIC etc.
- Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 03:14:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.031452.17111@ksmith.uucp>
- References: <1992Dec3.152220.13742@dg-rtp.dg.com> <id.AUJV._RE@ferranti.com> <9212060137.36@rmkhome.UUCP>
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- In article <9212060137.36@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >
- >And as I remember, the IBM PC required 128k for DOS, although it may have
- >been 64k.
-
- Uh, Yes, and yes. As the proud maintainer of >20 IBM PC's (*NOT* XT's
- PC's with Cassette ports). The PC will run DOS 1.X (The broken version)
- with 64K. DOS 2.0 Seems to require 128K to do anything useful. DOS 3.0
- will not BOOT without 128K.
-
- P.S. And we are finally replacing them with 486/33's <SIGH>. From the
- ridiculous to the sublime.
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