31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
9:18 a.m.
On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:50:18 +0100, Liam Proven wrote
Surely there is no possible DOS network stack that you
could fit into
16kB of RAM?
That would imply to me that either the NIC isn't original, or the
amount of RAM isn't.
My memory tells me the card was contemporary and from IBM, but I'll have to pull
out the machine tonight to check. The machine is definitely the 16K version with
cassette port. I assume it was part of the first of the systems described in [1]
(probably paywalled) and in badly muddled form at [2].
[1] Sandra Ward, Personal work-stations at the University of Waterloo, SIGUCCS
'84 Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services,
pp37-43 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800573
[2] https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/40th/Chronology/1982.shtml
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Kevin Schoedel <schoedel at kw.igs.net> VA3TCS