Re: DIGITAL CS433 Laptop

From: Ben Myers (_at_)
Date: 06/14/04

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    Well, then, I guess that the people who did the IDE standards were the ones who
    were either very dim-witted or short-sighted. It did not take much foresight to
    imagine much larger hard drives back then. Thanks for the correction.

    ... Ben Myers

    On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:38:04 -0700, "Jack Pea***" <pea***@simconv.com> wrote:

    ><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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