Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 18:22

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In article <41djjvINNjmn@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Are you sure about that? THe 640K limit stems from the fact that AT-bus
> devices have memory-mapped I/O in the upper 360K, as well as ROMs, etc.

Funny. My Kaypro 2000 laptop had 768K of "low memory". But you had to
run Kaypro DOS to use it.
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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
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