23 May
2001
23 May
'01
10:44 a.m.
In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105222115270.16621-100000@atlas.rccn.net>, Carlos Friacas <cfriacas@fccn.pt> writes
i remember someone once said... "640kb will be much more than we will ever need!" ;-)
It was, of course, a weak justification of an earlier address space exhaustion: splitting the 1MByte address space of a 16bit cpu into 16 "slots" of 64K, 10 for RAM and 6 for ROM/Peripherals. With hindsight 12/4 might have been a better choice - the moral being it was unfortunate that the split was inflexible. -- Roland Perry