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A surprisingly detailed writeup, nice. But what's the misleading anecdote from Raymond Chen? The claim piqued my interest but I didn't catch that part.
by orra 2y ago
A surprisingly detailed writeup, nice.
But what's the misleading anecdote from Raymond Chen? The claim piqued my interest but I didn't catch that part.
- nkali 2y agoThe answer to that is in the "sources" section. Raymond Chen first claims that Windows 2.x supported protected mode (which is half-true; it could run DOS applications in protected mode, but neither kernel nor applications supported it), and then finishes with saying "standard mode (Windows/286 style)" which is just wrong, as explained in the section about protected mode Windows kernel.