We’re seeing anecdotal evidence that Microsoft Corp couldn’t have got Windows NT to market at a more inauspicious time: the sudden panic and profiteering in the memory chip market is causing otherwise keen tecchies to decide to postpone loading of NT when they see how much it will cost them to upgrade their machines for the absurdly memory-hungry operating system remember that little more than a decade ago, despite the giantism from which MVS suffered, IBM Corp had no mainframes that could address more than 16Mb of memory.
