I liked it better that way.
The ~ character and roaming folders can go to hell.
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cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 day 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 day ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day 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 day ago
640k
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
640B ought to be enough for anybody
daggermoon@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
If you use ZFS like me, you can never have enough.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca 1 day ago
A commodore 64 should’ve been enough for anybody.
monketman82@lemmy.world 1 day ago
640kb more like! Don’t get me started on upper and lower ram DOS nonsense…
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
But does this game need himem.sys, or emm386.exe?
Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
You mean 640 KILObytes. Even Playstation 3 had only 256MB RAM.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 day ago
It was good enough for the Kaiser!