From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Story about Microsoft and *ix
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 02:02:28 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2104080159570.17360@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHTagfGbUvMNoH9sa5fgxQf5bsaioRHHxVf0HiZB-amy_muuNA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021, Ed Bradford wrote:
> Does anyone recall how much RAM memory could be put on the first IBM
> PC's? That was probably a major problem.
As I recall the earliest models supported 16-64K onboard, with later
models supporting 64-256K. The 1981 firmware was, IIRC, limited to 544K
(changed to 640K in 1982).
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-08 6:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-08 5:21 Dan Stromberg
2021-04-08 5:56 ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-08 6:02 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2021-04-08 8:16 ` David Arnold
2021-04-08 6:48 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-04-08 7:32 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-04-08 13:42 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-08 7:24 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-04-08 22:25 ` Heinz Lycklama
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