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That's my blog post -- thanks for the link. The Lobsters discussion was very interesting. Some people in there were extremely knowledgeable, but also very conf
by lproven 2y ago
That's my blog post -- thanks for the link.
The Lobsters discussion was very interesting. Some people in there were extremely knowledgeable, but also very confrontational. Coming straight in going "that's all wrong!" is not a productive way to start a discussion IMHO.
I didn't get any very firm conclusions from it. There are some very knowledgeable people out there on the WWW claiming, with convincing arguments, that Windows/286 couldn't run in 286 mode and only gave you 640kB ("conventional memory" in DOS terminology)+ 64kB HMA.
Others, including from Microsoft, say no, Windows/286 did run in protect mode and could access 16MB of (segmented) RAM.
I do not know for sure who is right.