this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
341 points (98.3% liked)

Technology

77899 readers
2395 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
341
Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 18 hours ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
113 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You're thinking of CP/M, right?

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can CP/M address >= 2^32 bytes?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/cpm-internals

CP/M requires a minimum of 20K RAM, although realistically, 48K is the bare minimum. Most systems have the maximum 64K.

Sounds like it can't address > 2¹⁶ bytes.