Re: max_loop limit

Bill Davidsen
2007-03-29T14:16:09Z

Tomas M wrote:
>> 255 loop devices are insufficient? What kind of scenario do you have
>> in mind?
>>
>>
>
> Thank you very much for replying.
>
> In 1981, Bill Gates said that 64KB of memory is enough for everybody.
> And you know how much RAM do you have right now. :)
>
Actually, I believe the number was 640k, the quote included the phrase
"should be," the available memory on the IBM PC. And this was after IBM
decided to put the video adapter in memory at 640k, Intel decided to
provide only 1MB of address space on the 8086, and was in the context of
mainframes of the day, some of which could only address 1MB.

And having run clients with three users on an XT with just that 640kB
and UNIX, I don't think he was wrong about the memory for that time,
just the O/S.

BTW: anyone got a copy of PC/IX (SysIII for XT) around? I'd love to run
that in a VM just for the comparison.

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