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From: garnett@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier
Message-ID: <3116@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 13:54:44 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.3116
Posted: Tue Dec  8 13:54:44 1987
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Reply-To: garnett@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1816@cup.portal.com> Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes:
>simrin@mis.ucsf.edu (Steve Simrin) writes:
>->In article <1189@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (mark) writes:
>->>
>->>I suspect that DOS 3.4 will fix the 640K [screwup]. (not 3.3)
>->>
>->
>->I don't think so. Breaking the 640k barrier is one of the 2 big
>->features of OS/2 (multitasking being the other). If they fix DOS, it will
>->cut the sales of OS/2 significantly.

well, its not a ram fix, but, Compaq DOS 3.31 breaks the 32M disk partition
limit. This feature should appear in MS DOS 3.4. (from PC Week, Dec 1)

So... mayby we'll all get lucky and get more Ram too.

okbye