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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year ago

How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

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How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 1 year ago
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A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve learned us keyboard layout so I could spare 16kb of ram for my local language layout :D

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