Re: MS-DOS Versions

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From: Mark Divecchio
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1986 06:50

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In article <1793@ncoast.UUCP>, wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher) writes:
> > Article <174200005@uiucuxc> From: karamich@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu
> | No version of DOS on the market (MS or PC) that i know of will allow >640K.
> DEC Rainbows running MS-DOS have up to 896k of RAM.


I have a short program which I got on a Bulletin Board which lets me use
DOS and up to 704K of memory as long as you don't have an EGA. The 640K
limitation seems to be an IBM PC limitation not a MSDOS limitation.
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From: markd@wolf.UUCP (Mark Divecchio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Versions
Message-ID: <243@wolf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Dec-86 01:50:47 EST
Article-I.D.: wolf.243
Posted: Fri Dec 12 01:50:47 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 06:05:03 EST
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Summary: DOS > 640K

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