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In the very old days Phar Lap made a compiler. They ran out of room in 64K so they wrote the DOS Extender. It was a far more popular tool than their compiler, s
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
In the very old days Phar Lap made a compiler. They ran out of room in 64K so they wrote the DOS Extender. It was a far more popular tool than their compiler, so they sold that, for a decade, from 1986 until Win95 came out with 32-bit support.
They have indeed erased the original compiler from the company history. But the company name itself, Phar Lap, was a reference to the racehorse because their compiler was going to be fast.
- mkl 4y ago640KB, not 64. That limit was such a ridiculous pain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional_memory
- yen223 4y ago> "In the very old days Phar Lap made a compiler" Having heard of the racehorse and not the company, this sentence tripped me up a bit
- BryantD 4y agoMan, memories. I worked for Phar Lap for, I dunno, a few months. Cool place.