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PSA - Free42 no longer supports Windows XP
04-14-2020, 03:10 AM (This post was last modified: 04-14-2020 03:11 AM by Sylvain Cote.)
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RE: PSA - Free42 no longer supports Windows XP
(04-13-2020 08:43 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  Of course with MS-DOS there would be the additional challenge of fitting the executable in RAM. Big Grin
Remember EMS (Expanded Memory Specification) ?
Back in the 80's, I was writing C program that had to run on several flavors of Unix and MS-DOS.
The way to run a 2MB executable on a 8088/8086 was to use the bank switching scheme of EMS.
For sure the program has to be designed from the ground up for that constraint, but still it could be done.
Later on it became easier with the 286/386 DOS Extenders to run flat executable.
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