Development, round II

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Jan 26 22:01:05 1998

At 02:51 AM 1/27/98 GMT, you wrote:
>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.

   BTW has anyone ever seen someone use the cassette port? I supported
several hundred early PC user's and never even heard of anyone using the
cassette port.

   Joe
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Received on Mon Jan 26 1998 - 22:01:05 GMT