Development, round II

From: Barry Peterson <bmpete_at_swbell.net>
Date: Mon Jan 26 20:51:08 1998

On Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:29:39 PST, you said:

>Another thing: CP/M was run on just about everything, usually with
>about 64K ram. How is it that MS-DOS blew up to about 384K? What
>did they put in there?

IIRC, the original IBM PC came with 64K, monochrome, a cassette
interface, and Basic in ROM. Of course, many buyers upgraded.
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Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 20:51:08 GMT