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I thought the idea was that in real mode it should be have like a faster 8086, and exposing memory beyond 1Mb breaks the illusion.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I thought the idea was that in real mode it should be have like a faster 8086, and exposing memory beyond 1Mb breaks the illusion.
- mlyle 3y agoIt does break the illusion. At the same time, it allowed another ~64k of memory, which was important. DOS eventually sat up there in the non-wrapped memory. So, feature or bug? Heh.