DOS memory management is a load of shit, but it's a load of shit that tastes like chocolate pudding!
I actually had an interesting issue. I, for shits and/or giggles, installed 96MB of RAM into my 486 because I had the FPM DRAM lying around and wanted to see if it would even work in a 32+32+32 configuration (it did, of course, just need one more 32mb stick to max my board). This actually caused some strange things to happen with not only a few poorly coded Windows 3.1 apps (which is honestly expected), but Tyrian, the classic shmup, actually restarted the computer just by launching it. A strange workaround was to enable EMS support on EMM386, but that completely hogged up the UMB, and stole all my conventional memory making any game that relied on a lot of it (Like Civ 1) stop working. Of course the real solution is stop trying to be funny and remove 64MB of the memory. I'll put it back in if I need to use something like OS/2, Linux, or WinNT/9x.
If you think Germany is behind on innovation in terms of telecommunications, 90/90 is considered ungodly fast in much of the US. Gigabit connections are such an amazing luxury here, you are actually lucky if you move to a different part of a city to get one.
Fiber? HAH! Some places have touch tone dialing as their most technologically advanced telecommunications feature. I don't think there are still any pulse dialing switches still alive though.
Don't forget, you can boil a kettle without tripping a 15A 120v breaker as well. No time like the present to feel good about nations that are in the past.