Subject: Re: Ryanair website to close for ten hours (checkin as well as reservations)

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Subject: Re: Ryanair website to close for ten hours (checkin as well as reservations)

Posted on: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:14:32 +0100

Roland Perry wrote:
> In message , at
> 18:56:04 on Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Mortimer remarked:
>> Likewise "640KB of RAM should be plenty for running all forseeable
>> software"
>
> That one has never been authenticated, although commonly [mis]attributed
> to Bill Gates. In practice, the design of the IBM PC, which quickly
> became the standard, only had "slots" for 640K of RAM; until some people
> found loopholes.

You still had a lot of hoops to jump trough (expanded/extended memory).

The basic MSDOS could only cope with 640K. It was also true that upto
Windows 95 you could only address 2Gb of disk space.

--
John Wright

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