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From: abcscnge@csun.UUCP (Scott Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <939@csun.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 19:54:16 EST
Article-I.D.: csun.939
Posted: Thu Dec  3 19:54:16 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 03:21:22 EST
References: <164300022@uiucdcsb>
Reply-To: abcscnge@csun.UUCP (Scott Neugroschl)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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In article <164300022@uiucdcsb> blanken@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>I am interested in finding out some info on DOS 3.3.  I heard it rumored
>that 3.3 was supposed to break the 640k RAM barrier

No, no, no...  DOS 3.3 is DOS 3.2 but better.  3.3 allows what clone users
have had for a while -- support for file systems on a hard disk bigger than
32MB.  Your partitions still have to be 32MB or less, but they can now all be
accessed from DOS.  DOS 3.3 is still real mode, so you are limited to 1MB 
address space, with 384K reserved for I/O, ROM, etc... leaving you with the
traditional DOS 640K barrier.  To go protected, you have to get OS/2 or UNIX
(Uport, or XENIX).

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