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Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion


From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:43:38 -0400

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:23:52 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
I will point out that nobody has said “what the F*** were they thinking” when they made it possible to use 4GB of RAM instead of just 640k, but lots of people have said “what the F*** were they thinking when they limited it to 640k.”

Actually, they did. And "PAE" was invented. (or "re-invented", as various paging mechanisms had existed for many decades by then)


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