I liked it better that way.
The ~ character and roaming folders can go to hell.
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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
it was the style at the time
grandpa simpson pointing at his belt but actually (as the other comment says) uppercase file extensions were a holdover from when the entire filename could only be uppercase
bstix@feddit.dk 1 month ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Of course in those days 640 Megs of RAM was all we needed.
“There’ll never be a need for more than that”, you’d say.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
640k
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
640B ought to be enough for anybody
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 month ago
A commodore 64 should’ve been enough for anybody.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you use ZFS like me, you can never have enough.
monketman82@lemmy.world 1 month ago
640kb more like! Don’t get me started on upper and lower ram DOS nonsense…
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
But does this game need himem.sys, or emm386.exe?
Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
You mean 640 KILObytes. Even Playstation 3 had only 256MB RAM.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 month ago
Not that I want to defend that Epstein-associated adulterer, because fuck him, but he probably never said the quote.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
aMockTie@piefed.world 1 month ago
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).
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It was good enough for the Kaiser!