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On 09 Aug 2025 10:28:46 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote
in <689722de$0$28075$426a34cc@news.free.fr>:

> Le 08-08-2025, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> a écrit :
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 19:06:23 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/8/2025 2:56 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 14:33:06 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Ironic, isn’t it, that its CP/M predecessor moved on to multiuser/
>>>> multitasking operation (MP/M, Concurrent CP/M), but MS-DOS,
>>>> supposedly an improvement on the older product, never did.
>>> 
>>> You cannot do much with only 640K RAM in IBM/PC and compatibles.
>>
>> I wonder why not. Remember, 1970s-vintage minicomputers from DEC and
>> other vendors were running multiuser, multitasking systems in maybe
>> only a few hundred K of RAM.
> 
> The expectation of today's computers is not the same as the 70's
> computers. Today, one expect to be able to display images, to see
> videos, to read formatted text and to hear music. For example.

Yes, I did love to hear the dulcet strains playing from my Pi-controlled
sprinkler controller. ;)

(Alas, it succumbed to the elements, and had to be replaced by a "real"
sprinkler unit.)

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