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I feel like this is missing EMS and XMS memory. Both were well supported ways of getting more than 640k. EMS worked by page banking. 1 or 2 64k segments of memo
by nox101 2y ago
I feel like this is missing EMS and XMS memory. Both were well supported ways of getting more than 640k. EMS worked by page banking. 1 or 2 64k segments of memory would be changed to point to different 64k banks from an add on memory card. XMS just did a copy instead of a page bank IIRC. It's been a long time but I wrote DOS apps that used both to support more than 640k of memory using both standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_memory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_memory
- jmmv 2y agoYou should read the very first article I wrote in this “series” then, linked to from the opening paragraph: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/from-0-to-1-mb-in-dos https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/from-0-to-1-mb-in-dos (previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39031369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39031369 at the beginning of the year).
- pcb-rework 2y agoWhat "feeling" does it give you? ;) Borland Pascal and C++ support EMS overlays. Think of it like a shared library almost. Also, using DPMI is another way around it.