Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Leonard Erickson <shadow@krypton.rain.com>]

ammonton@cc.full.stop.helsinki.fi wrote:
> 
> In comp.sys.sinclair william strutts <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:
> 
> > It seems to me I heard of large RAM cards for 8088 machines
> > but I could be mistaken.
> 
> There were various memory expansions available, but there weren't
> standards so they weren't so widely supported. But then again, in those
> days real men wrote their own software for their own needs.

There was a lack of standards only in the very early days. It quickly
settled down the the EEMS standard from AST (and others) and the LIM
(Lotus-Intel-Microsoft) standard. By version 3, they had converged. 

Trust me, the LIM standard was *very* widely supported. 
-- 
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow{G})
 shadow@krypton.rain.com	<--preferred
leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com	<--last resort