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Originally Posted by UncleWede
There was time time, back in the 1900s, when I had a scratchy video of Bill Gates saying no computer would EVER need more than 16K of RAM.
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It was 640K, IIRC. The original IBM PC's 8088 CPU could only address 1024K of memory, and they used quite a bit of that address space at the top of the range for the BIOS, having the BASIC interpreter in ROM, and the CGA video RAM. What was left was 640K...and getting there required filling every motherboard socket and expansion slot if my aging brain is still working properly.....