25 Apr
2008
25 Apr
'08
3:56 p.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
Jim Leonard wrote:
> Tony Duell wrote:
>> [1] When I got my first IBM PC-family machine (a 5160), I took it to
>> bits (what a suprise) and sat down with the TechRef. Every few
>> minutes I'd exclaim 'They did WHAT???' as I found aother it of
>> misdesign...
>
> That's not the first time you've mentioned that, so now I have to ask
> you: What's the #1 most glaring misdesign you can remember about the
> 5150 or 5160?
Duh, the other really stupid one: taking the 1MB memory space and
putting BIOS and video where they did.