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From: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Versions
Message-ID: <2784@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 22:00:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 26 22:00:42 1986
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Reply-To: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
Organization: The Ohio State University, CIS Dept.
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ARGH!!!

Maybe all that eggnog is addling some of the brains out there...

It's not MS-DOS or PC-DOS that limits you to 640K, it's the IBM video card.

The scene is Boca Raton...
"Hey, Joe? Where should I put the video buffer?"
"How about the middle of the address space? That way we'll have room for lots
of nonexistent ROM expansions!"
"Great, I'll do it!"

In any case, I have run vanilla PC-DOS (no mods) with 960K of RAM available
for normal program memory.  Hint: It wasn't exactly on an IBM...


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