RE: 64-bit

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Who needs more than 64k? The original "Big" Blue had that much. Just a
glorified Commodore, with no graphics.

At 01:26 PM 3/22/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >From: Buck Calabro [mailto:Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net]
> >Must have been an interesting architectural discussion trading
> >off segment size vs. performance on those slow S/38's.
>
>No, not really. Everyone agreed that no one would ever use more than 640K
>anyway so 16M was more than enough! <G>
>
>-Walden
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