SERIES TITLES
PC RAM Extenders, Part 1 of 4: Number Systems
PC RAM Extenders, Part 2 of 4: Memory limits and extenders
*> PC RAM Extenders, Part 3 of 4: Windows Memory Management
PC RAM Extenders, Part 4 of 4: Windows RAM Tools
The first versions of MS Windows used a 16 bit memory space, and were essentially a “front [...]
SERIES TITLES
PC RAM Extenders, Part 1 of 4: Number Systems
*>PC RAM Extenders, Part 2 of 4: Memory limits and extenders
PC RAM Extenders, Part 3 of 4: Windows Memory Management
PC RAM Extenders, Part 4 of 4: Windows RAM Tools
I was at IBM R&D in Vermont when their first 1 kilobyte chip was announced to the electronics [...]
Progress in computer hardware and software is often a leap-frog process, and this affects how users can do things.
In the early 1980s, IBM R&D provided me a model 1 Personal Computer (actually the 5150), which came with a mere 64Kb RAM and two 360Kb floppy drives, plus IBM/MS DOS 1.0. Looking back, that was pretty [...]
I got my first IBM Personal Computer model PC-1 (actually the 5150) in 1982 while I was in IBM R&D. It was to serve both as a low power computer and as a data terminal by means of a cable adapter. It came with the minimal 64Kb of RAM, so I immediately had to order [...]
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