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On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 19:06:23 +0800
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

> You cannot do much with only 640K RAM in IBM/PC and compatibles. Once 
> PCs got more memory, we got Double DOS and DesqView!!

You can do plenty, depending on what it is you're trying to do. 640 KB
won't get you far in, say, 3D modeling/rendering, but you could fit a
whole novella in Markdown syntax in that space without even breaking it
up into chapters.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:18:56 +1000
Daniel70 <daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse> wrote:

> Might this be a case of "If people have 1GB of RAM, WE (the
> programmers) might as well make use of it (and not worry to much
> about being 'tidy' with 'our' programming)??

And yes, definitely this. MS-DOS EDIT is "only" ~192 KB, and that's
because it's really QBASIC with the BASIC parts stowed in the cupboard.
A dedicated text editor in the DOS days was generally far less (I've
got a couple bare-bones ones that fit in 4-8 KB, somewhere.) Compare
that to even a lightweight modern text editor like Programmer's
Notepad, which is ~3 MB on disk and has a working set of like 28 MB
with nothing open...!