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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- In-Reply-To: pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU's message of 29 Aug 92 04:15:26 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 07:43:49 GMT
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- price> == price carl wayne <pricec@prism.CS.ORST.EDU>
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- price> OOPS, wrong again. The 640kB barrier is in DOS, not the Intel
- price> hardware with a 32-bit OS, in my case OS/2, this limit *does not
- price> exist*. I know. In my computer right now there is 8MB of ram,
- price> and I assure you I need no tricks to access that memory.
-
- Sounds great. How much software is there for OS/2? How much of it
- takes advantage of the new user interface? How likely is it that you
- can run software that was written in 1988, say, and have it still use
- all that 8M?
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