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And here's another article from 1993 in PC Magazine which goes into detail, and with a bit more accuracy than the original article for this HN discussion (for e
by polpo 10y ago
And here's another article from 1993 in PC Magazine which goes into detail, and with a bit more accuracy than the original article for this HN discussion (for example, it explains how XMS works on the 286): https://books.google.com/books?id=gCfzPMoPJWgC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=xms+loadall&source=bl&ots=rmlgK_Hia9&sig=skK-3_tKMmhbFteI4FgBgnYTUhc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbgMq26aTTAhVdImMKHSnTACUQ6AEIMDAC#v=onepage&q=xms%20loadall&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=gCfzPMoPJWgC&pg=PA302&lpg=...
- flomo 10y agoWow, that is the exact article where I learned this stuff from. (Funny how your memory gets jogged like that.) I was an Apple guy and a late comer to the PC world, and PC Magazine was pretty much a must-read back in the day. Lots of good technical content.