21 Mar
2003
21 Mar
'03
4:33 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I have a system for which I once bought an EMS memory board to assist when
SMARTDRV first came out. I loaded my extra-large cache into EMS and it
made my slow disk scream. It rocked.
Peace... Sridhar
What was the
point of the ISA memory addon boards, people running
windows/286 and OS/2 1.x/2.x?
Yes, that and productivity apps that needed more space than 640K
(spreadsheets, CAD packages, etc.) plus games. There were plenty of DOS
games that needed more than ~500K.