[Mr. Jeeves]

I’m reminded of the old rule: “The system you really want always costs $5,000.”

I used to use this exact system at work. With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody. :)

[daniel1212]

I used to use this exact system at work. With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody. :)

Who would ever need more?

[Dr. Sivana]

With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody.

Unless you ran Autocad or some REALLY big Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets.

Also, on the 8086, drivers often wound up eating into main memory. TSR programs like Sidekick used even more.

[adorno]

With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody

Even with today's tablets and smartphones and PCs, 640k might be enough.

Most people can only do one app at a time, and most apps don't really do much more than present on the screen stuff that's really done on the cloud.

And, loading up a tablet or smartphone with apps, just because 'they are there', makes on sense either.

[SecondAmendment]

> With DOS, 640K really was enough for anybody

Except the CIA/FBI/NSA/DoD/DHS who need the extra RAM to run their spyware to keep tabs on counter-revolutionaries that voted for Trump ...

[kvanbrunt2]

And you could get Extended or expanded memory. Oracle first came out running in the extended memory partition. I paid $500 for 2 meg hardwired memory board for the IBM machine. Mine was a clone so i had to melt the chips off and put them on an extended memory card. Ran real slow but i had a full blown oracle database running on the machine.

[Woodman]

We bought and networked several of these at the office. Once we had all we needed I recall them being about $4500 a piece.

[ken in texas]

re. 640K

But if it wasn't you could get an expanded memory board. Picked up an Intel Above-Board with 512K one time, then spent hour after hour tweaking extended memory settings in DOS.