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Thursday, May 6, 2021
CONTINUITY: Garbage Then, Garbage Now—Microsoft Windows 1.04
The 640 Kb BIOS memory test at the start ran for 48 seconds on this IBM PC/XT clone (4.77 MHz Intel 8088). Testing the 16 Gb RAM installed on many current PCs at this speed would take more than two weeks.
Posted at May 6, 2021 12:14