On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 11:45, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> the card was indeed needed for 8088/80286 to access any sort of memory > > 640KB. Not for an 80286, no. The 80286 could access 16MB of RAM and many '286 PCs shipped with 1MB, meaning that they had 384kB of XMS out of the box. > For me personally was more important that EMS would take away 64kB of upper > memory, which could be used > to load MS lanmanaged network drivers, and no programs that I would use > supported EMS anyway. This was my thinking in the way I set up the DOS USB key, but one of my first ever users to contact me disagrees. :-) / :-( -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
