From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:27:36 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <4030fb6ae37f8ca8ae9c43ceefbdf57b@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <<20091015105328.GA18947@nipl.net>> References: <<20091015105328.GA18947@nipl.net>> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish Topicbox-Message-UUID: 87a4a4ce-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu Oct 15 06:55:24 EDT 2009, sam@nipl.net wrote: > task. With respect to Ken, Bill Gates said something along the lines of "who > would need more than 640K?". on the other hand, there were lots of people using computers with 4mb of memory when bill gates said this. it was quite easy to see how to use more than 1mb at the time. in fact, i believe i used an apple ][ around that time that had ~744k. it was a wierd amount of memory. > There is a vast range of applications that cannot > be managed in real time using existing single-core technology. please name one. - erik