15 Jul
2015
15 Jul
'15
5:43 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:23:52 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
I will point out that nobody has said “what the F*** were they thinking” when they made it possible to use 4GB of RAM instead of just 640k, but lots of people have said “what the F*** were they thinking when they limited it to 640k.”
Actually, they did. And "PAE" was invented. (or "re-invented", as various paging mechanisms had existed for many decades by then)