devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine) (01/10/87)
In article <2784@osu-eddie.UUCP>, elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell) writes: > It's not MS-DOS or PC-DOS that limits you to 640K, it's the IBM video card. > The scene is Boca Raton... > "Hey, Joe? Where should I put the video buffer?" > "How about the middle of the address space? That way we'll have room for lots > of nonexistent ROM expansions!" > "Great, I'll do it!" I suspect the "Joe" character was an IBM product planner who insisted that the engineer limit the address to 640K so as not to make the PC a possible competitor to the "real" IBM machines like Series 1, System 3x... Bob Devine