Quote Originally Posted by Cuddles
I guess this is the same as the "Black Hole" that needs to reside between 640k and 1 meg in memory maps - because "good ol' M$" - in its "infinate" wisdom, thought that (1) no one would ever go above 1 meg, and so the OS always sets the hole in memory for system/ROM/and such, which was only "recently" (in computer history terms) openned up to be used as "high memory" loading. And (2) M$'s OS's had to have "something" that was consistant in any computer, with any hardware, and with any amount of memory. (wonder if any of the new Win OS's ever got around the "hole" in memory yet?)
No you have got Intel to thank for that one MS had nothing to do with it and it is still there to this day in any system you buy that is based on x86 architecture which is pretty much any personal PC sold. Just look at you boot messages from the BIOS you will see what I mean there is still the extended memory above that registered with the system.

...Sometimes, the more I think about it, I am astonished that M$ had gotten as big as it has, with all these issues (stuck in their OS). I guess when they (M$) started going more toward the NTFS structure, they got away from a lot of the "baggage" that FAT came with.
Not suprising at all when you consider the illegal business practices they have employed all these years and finally have been convicted of with little tangible result unfortunately.

Thanks to you both for the enlightenment on the Linux innerds (yesh, that has to be misspelled)
Cuddles
That would be innards and since you run linux and have the program already installed you can:
Code:
>$ dict innerds
No definitions found for "innerds", perhaps you mean:
gcide:  innards
wn:  innards
moby-thesaurus:  innards
Or if you upgrade to KDE 3.2 you can have the spell checking on the fly when typing into most any dialogs or windows plus a whole lot of other goodies. Works for acronyms like YMMV if you have the proper dictionaries installed as well.