Re: 386 vs the TT

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From: Pim Zandbergen
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1989 21:05

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01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes:

>Several users on my site have fast 386 machines. The problem is that most
>codes do not support memory beyond 640K. Thus, a 4 meg 386 has over 3 megs
>of useless RAM.

You talk about the limitations of PC's, but you really mean those of MS-DOS.
There are ways of making a 386 PC very useful; installing MS-DOS on it 
is not one of them.
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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
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Subject: Re: 386 vs the TT
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