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There were third party memory managers that you could use in DOS; for example, QEMM and 386max. I assume Wing Commander was licensing and shipping one of those
by IvyMike 11y ago
There were third party memory managers that you could use in DOS; for example, QEMM and 386max. I assume Wing Commander was licensing and shipping one of those rather than relying on the stock memory manager. In fact in 1993 MS licensed some technology for later versions of EMM386 from Helix's third party memory manager[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Software_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_Software_Company
- bananaboy 11y agoYeah I used to run QEMM. I don't think anyone would have shipped QEMM or 386max with their game, since they were commercial products for end users. It sounds like, as someone else said, the story was mangled over time.