Re: 640K limit

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From: Thomas Rush
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 06:00

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In article <1468@blackbird.afit.af.mil>, news@blackbird.afit.af.mil (News System Account) writes:

>                  The original PC came with 64k!

	The original IBM PC came with 16K.  The BIOS did not allow
more than 64K of RAM, if I remember correctly.

	Anyone got an original IBM cassette tape drive for sale?
Mine is starting to wear out....

thomas.
uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
Look, anything after one sentence is questionable.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cpqhou!thomasr
From: thomasr@cpqhou.UUCP (Thomas Rush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640K limit
Summary: Original IBM PC
Message-ID: <511@cpqhou.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 06:00:00 GMT
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