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Let's peek at the arcane ways of MS-DOS memory management. (raduzaharia.medium.com)
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[–] deepthaw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I was working with optimizing memory on my pentium III lately for when i want to run more arcane dos games, and actually switched video cards because the BIOS on an nvidia card was so big that it was making it hard to map memory to that area... fun times.