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Re:DRAM Changed the World by rob74 on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:15AM (#41922939)
Of course, the really significant step back then was being able to go from 640 kB (+/-) to more than 1 MB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_memory).
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Re:DRAM Changed the World by specialist on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @09:24AM (#41924839)
Yup.

We maxed our Tandy (Radio Shack) 286 boxen, juiced to a blistering 8mhz, with 2.5mb RAM. I got blisters from stuffing RAM into daughter boards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_memory#Expansion_boar...

Twas early years of PC-based image scanning and processing. We only had 1 image capture board. The boot's POST duration for 2.5mb was ridiculous. So after a cpature, my coworker (hi Tim Hall!) would ever so quickly yank the board out of a running box (now doing image processing) to be used in another box.

Multitasking!

As I remember it, the jump to 386 (much delayed by Micron's protectionist racket) was the next biggest step up.

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