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- From: ajross@husc10.harvard.edu (Andrew Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <ajross.715355666@husc10>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:54:26 GMT
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- ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- >>1) The IBM compatible 286, 386, and 486 machines have no built in 640k
- >>limit. That is a limitation of DOS (Disk Operating System),
-
- >Wrong. That's what the "PC World"-type magazines would like
- >you to believe, but this limit is not specific to DOS. Many
- >programs, such as VP-Windows, that do not run under DOS still
- >have problems with it. PC experts said that this limitation
- >would go away in Windows. It didn't. They said it would go
- >away in Windows 3.0. It didn't. They said it would go away
- >in Windows 3.1. It didn't. Now they're saying it will go
- >away if I switch to OS2. Well, I don't believe them anymore.
- >There's an old expression, "Fool me once, shame on thee. Fool
- >me twice, shame on me."
-
-
- Mr. Wright, this is getting out of hand. I have asked you before, and you
- have not answered. What problems are you having with memory management
- and Ventura Publisher? Several posters have responded with quite
- knowlegeable posts as to why the 640k barrier no longer exists for
- practical purposes. You continue to assert that it does, but have yet to
- detail even one memory management problem you have had at 640k. Now, if
- you are having these problems, please elucidate as some of us might
- actually be able to help you. If you are not, please stop your drivel.
- Windows effectively has no 640k barrier, and OS/2 cannot. Period.
-
- Andy Ross
- ajross@husc.harvard.edu
-