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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <ewright.715017293@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:54:53 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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- In <1992Aug28.063440.28863@CS.ORST.EDU> pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (price carl wayne) writes:
-
- >Strange, my PC has a memory limit of 4GB without any of the expanded et al.
- >BS.
-
- You said it. BS indeed. The PC has a memory limit of 640 kilobytes.
- Not megabytes, *kilobytes*. Memory beyond that barrier cannot be
- addressed without resorting to tricks such as those used by Microsoft
- Windows. Tricks that don't always work, which is why Ventura Publisher
- for Windows, for example, cannot multitask with any other Windows program
- no matter how much physical or virtual memory you have installed. If you
- don't believe me, just call Ventura technical support and *ask*.
-
- >You Should check out the PC world, much has and is happening (the
- >great thing about competition).
-
- Look, kid, I've already stated this several times, but
- since you obviously have trouble reading, I'll state it
- again, in capital letters just for you: I AM TYPING THIS
- ON A PC. I USE A PC EIGHT HOURS A DAY -- MORE THAN I USE
- THE MAC. I don't need to "check out the PC world," I am
- already more familiar with it than I really care to be,
- probably more familiar with it than most people here, and
- obviously a hell of a lot more familar than you.
-