Hank G ☑️ on Nostr: My first apps pushing real memory requirements, "hundreds of KB to MB", were on Unix ...
My first apps pushing real memory requirements, "hundreds of KB to MB", were on Unix systems. The second was Windows 95. The peculiarities of PC memory issues were just running config tools to get Tie Fighter running. Seeing it spelled out so painfully makes me glad I missed all that. #history #ComputerHistory #programming #RetroComputing
From 0 to 1 MB in DOS
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