Re: DIGITAL CS433 Laptop

From: Jack Peacock (peacock_at_simconv.com)
Date: 06/14/04

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    <ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
    news:40ccc2b0.1906396@news.charter.net...
    > The very first computers with a BIOS autodetect feature, 386 clones, had a
    > limitation of 528MB, because that's all that was available at the time,
    and the
    > BIOS designers and writers were either very dim-witted or short-sighted,
    > possibly both.
    >
    Actually the BIOS writers were keeping to the IDE standards of the time.
    The breaks at 512M/2G/8G/128G have to do with the number of bits available
    in hardware to address sectors as the IDE spec evolved. Early SCSI
    interfaces had the same problem at 1GB, and old MFM/RLL controllers at
    128MB.
      Jack Pea***

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