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640K

(640 Kilobytes) Typically refers to the first 640 kilobytes of memory in a PC, known as conventional memory. See PC memory and PC memory map.



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At this time, the industry was growing and everybody was sick of the 640k barrier and Intel architecture (which we still live with today).
I added a little bit more RAM, eventually totaling 764K in a desktop that used an operating system that could not address more than 640K.
We knew that even 16-bit computers, which had 640K of available address space, would be adequate for only four or five years.
 
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