🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DOWDING.90Nov16121021@palm.ai.sri.com> dowding@ai.sri.com (John Dowding) writes:
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>Is anyone going to come up with a good implementation that uses Windows
>3.0 as the DOS extender, so I could run it on my grumpy old '286?

Note that Windows is *not* a DOS extender in the sense you mean.  Windows
provides a multi-tasking environment, as does DESQView (which in my mind is
preferable to Windows).  But either environment (or just standard DOS for that
matter) will run programs which were written using a DOS extender like PharLap.
I'm not exactly sure how many applications have been extended (in this sense)
for 286's--the great advantage for 386's is that the extenders kick the CPU
into the native 386 mode with a flat memory architecture.  Presumably similar
advantages can be had by using the 286 in true 286 mode, but I don't know if
this is done very often since getting out of 286 mode literally requires a
hard CPU reset (one of the reasons the 286 was called "brain-dead" by many
reviewers).

But again, DOS extenders are a completely separate issue from environments like
Windows....

Bradley