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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 04:34 AM EST |
I don't recall the original Spectrum ads, but I think '32K available' would
have been slightly pessimistic (or they were playing safe - Microsift take note!
:o) ). After all, the 16K version used the same screen resolution and still had
RAM left for user programs.
As I recall, screen RAM occupied 6.75K
(24*8*32=6144b for the bitmap + 24*32=768b for attributes (=colour, bright &
flash), total 6912b = 6.75KiB). By the time you've added the print buffer
(256b), UDGs (168b), system variables and assorted BASIC-related overheads you'd
probably be somewhere over 8K, but still have change from
16.
--O4w, still nerdy after all these years. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 05:04 AM EST |
I imagine Microsoft would say that any educated user must realise that the OS
and applications take up space.
I don't buy that, though. They are targetting the hardware at a wide market and
that must include people who don't have a clue.
In any case - 40Gb for OS and applications? As PJ would say,
"Puhlease!". Fifteen years ago I was running a business network with
only 2Gb of storage on the server (we did upgrade to 4Gb during the life of the
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 05:23 AM EST |
I read a news report, yesterday, that Apple are responding to the Microsoft
competitive threat to the business market for the iPad by upping the memory.
I would explain why that is so funny, but I just cannot stop laughing.
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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 10:59 AM EST |
My question is How may updates and Service Packs will it take to use it ALL up?
I helped my sister-in-law with her netbook that got filled with that junk to a
point it was practically unusable.
I had to reformat and reload it to make it work again.
Does anyone seriously believe that won't happen here?
Me, I have Ubuntu on my laptop since 9.04![ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Wednesday, January 30 2013 @ 11:23 AM EST |
WIN-BLOWS 8 takes up 42 GB!
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