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Information about Rational System's 286 extender seems to be limited. What I found: Rational System were later renamed to Tenberry and their DOS/4G and DOS/4GW
by phire 3y ago
Information about Rational System's 286 extender seems to be limited.
What I found: Rational System were later renamed to Tenberry and their DOS/4G and DOS/4GW extenders were very popular (due to the latter being bundled with Waycom C). But they were for the 386.
The version that worked on the 286 was called DOS/16M, because it supported 16MB of address space. Someone summarises the API here [1]. I was kind of hoping someone might have uploaded the manual to archive.org, but no luck.
[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc/c/zkgdj84bRkE/m/iYCdsWhhOkYJ?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc/c/zkgdj84bRkE/m/...
Apparently it was called DOS/16M and the company was later renamed to
- WalterBright 3y agoI think I have a copy of DOS/16M in the basement somewhere. I have a copy of Pharlap's 32 bit extender, and their 16 bit extender. Zortech C/C++ also shipped with a nice 32 bit extender written by Joe and Doug Huffman, which was my favorite.