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Old 06-27-2004, 11:06 AM  
Tom_PMs
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Yes you could get 64k of ram on an 8088 or 8086. Or on the NEC v-20 and v-30 upgrade chips (which were a teensy faster).
One of my old PC's had DOS in ROM also, which freed up a little bit and made it boot very fast.

Back then when you programmed you had to be efficient.
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