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Well, the article misses version 5.0, which according to its rap-promo commercial[0] freed "45kb of memory at least"(!). [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d
by achairapart 5y ago
Well, the article misses version 5.0, which according to its rap-promo commercial[0] freed "45kb of memory at least"(!).
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEvPZUdAVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEvPZUdAVI
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoNote that this was a big deal not because 45K was a lot of memory in general by that point, but because the first 640K ("conventional" memory) is special in DOS. If you didn't have enough of it free, many programs simply couldn't run, so having DOS itself take up significantly less of this memory was a big win.