4 Apr
2004
4 Apr
'04
9:22 a.m.
In message <407044F0.2070009(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
ben franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Al Hartman wrote:
I've got a 386 PC sitting behind me running Caldera DR-DOS 7.03.
It's got 8MB
of base RAM and is fitted with an Ethernet card. I've even got it
communicating with the SAMBA (Windows File And Print Sharing) server. Without
the SMB junk loaded, it's got 617KB of free "conventional" RAM. With SMB
(well, M$ Client for DOS) loaded, it usually has about 417KB free. Did I
mention the fact that both Turbo Pascal 7 and Turbo C++ 3 will run quite
happily on this system?
Hi people!
But 512k isn't enough RAM to do anything useful
Look what Bill Gates can do
in 640K. :) Well memory relative I guess, 512 MEG don't seem
to
CUT it now days!
My fileserver's running OK with 96MB, the graphics workstation
(Linux based
P3-560) works fine with 128MB of RAM. Oh, and the RISC PC only has 64MB, but
I very rarely see "Out of memory" errors on it.
A long jump from 4k of memory on the early machines.
4K?! Luxury! "Why, when I was a kid, we had 256 BYTES of RAM, and we jolly
well liked it!" (yeah, sure, Grampa). :)
I did have a Sinclair ZX81 at one point - unfortunately the power supply blew
and took out the voltage regulator and most of the ICs on the board. It was
deemed beyond repair :(
Later.
--
Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI
... Now where did I put that fire extinguisher?