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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: ammonton@cc.full.stop.helsinki.fi
Date: 18 Jul 2001 09:14:07 GMT
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In comp.sys.sinclair Timothy A. Seufert <tas@mindspring.com> wrote:

> The x86 segmentation stuff is a bit different from bank switching, BTW.  
> The oddball memory in early x86 systems (EMS, LIM, etc.) was the bank 
> switching you're remembering, and it was needed to use more than the 1MB 
> available *with* segmentation.

"LIM" is just the initials of the names of the companies that created
EMS, namely Lotus, Intel and Microsoft.

-a

References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>

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