Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps?

• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  640k

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  • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    640B ought to be enough for anybody

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you use ZFS like me, you can never have enough.

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    • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A commodore 64 should’ve been enough for anybody.

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• monketman82@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  640kb more like! Don’t get me started on upper and lower ram DOS nonsense…

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  • __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But does this game need himem.sys, or emm386.exe?

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You mean 640 KILObytes. Even Playstation 3 had only 256MB RAM.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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).

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• teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It was good enough for the Kaiser!

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