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 [...]
Have you ever seen a Windows application hang, or take 100 percent of CPU, such that Ctrl-Alt-Del does not help and Windows Task Manager can’t end it? And have you had supposed Windows experts on various software sites assure you that such is not possible? I have, and I got very tired of having to [...]
Also tagged freeware, kill application, task killer, task managerAs I have written elsewhere, there are numerous programs for compressing data into archive files, with option of password. Personal computer users are often familiar with ZIP, RAR, and other file types. Archives save space, but also can keep related files together.
Some programs can mount such archives so that they behave as virtual disks. An [...]