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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: Roy Miller <millers@iliveinnebraska.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:01:36 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, comp.sys.amstrad.8bit, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.atari.8bit, comp.sys.atari.advocacy, comp.sys.atari.st, comp.sys.cbm, comp.sys.sinclair
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Paul Schlyter wrote:

> The address space of the 286 was 24 bit, although those 16 MB of
> memory was addressable only in protected mode -- in real mode, the
> 286 could address 1 MB + 64 KB.

Ahhhh, so that's why with DR-DOS 6.0 or MS-DOS 6.0 you could load DOS
high!!
I didn't know about the extra 64K (rather, I didn't know how you could use
64K of the remaining 15 megs of protected mode.)

Roy

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References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)

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