<div>Well, I could run unix with all 1536K, but not MS/PCDOS 3.2. So call it a software issue of failing to work around the hardware issue. Obviously the hardware was not a show-stopper.</div>
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<div>But it was the 286 I did this on, not the earlier 8088, which I don't think could reasonably have been expected to run unix; but the original comment regarded the 80286.</div>
<div>Peter<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Hahn</b> <<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> I believe the issue was the location in memory of reserved space, stuck at<br><br>640K is the location of the video buffer. this is a hardware issue, not sw.
<br>the cpu could address up to 1M (+64k, iirc.)<br></blockquote></div><br>