I have a collection of files from the late ´90s and early ´00s. Many of them are .JPG, .MP3, .WAV, instead of .jpg, .mp3, and .wav. Why was that the norm at the time? I usually just change the extension myself.
I have a collection of files from the late ´90s and early ´00s. Many of them are .JPG, .MP3, .WAV, instead of .jpg, .mp3, and .wav. Why was that the norm at the time? I usually just change the extension myself.
Of course in those days 640
Megsof RAM was all we needed.“There’ll never be a need for more than that”, you’d say.
640k
640B ought to be enough for anybody
If you use ZFS like me, you can never have enough.
A commodore 64 should’ve been enough for anybody.
640kb more like! Don’t get me started on upper and lower ram DOS nonsense…
But does this game need himem.sys, or emm386.exe?
You mean 640 KILObytes. Even Playstation 3 had only 256MB RAM.
Not that I want to defend that Epstein-associated adulterer, because fuck him, but he probably never said the quote.
Yeah it took on a life of its own, including his effort to crush it or explain it away. But I think he said it. Also that it was heavily context-dependent, and ultimately just a way to shit on the man who single-handedly robbed us all of an open-source utopia of informed citizenry by being a greedy bastard.
Also not defending Gates, but realistically it wouldn’t have made any sense for him or anyone at Microsoft to say such a thing. The 640K barrier was not chosen by Microsoft or caused by DOS, it was a limitation of the 8088/8086 CPU that IBM used in the original PC.
It wasn’t until the 80286 that the issue was partially solved, and then the 80386 and on where it was completely solved (though still required a lot of fiddling and manual configuration which was the fault of DOS’ design).
It was good enough for the Kaiser!