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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:44:35 -0400
Message-Id: <200307301144.h6UBiZkn014310@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <f88a27e4.0307300042.5b60b7fe@posting.google.com>
(ypjofficial AT indiatimes DOT com)
Subject: Re: regarding dos 640kb barrier
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> everybody knows that dos has 640kb barrier..and hence this makes dos
> inefficient...

DJGPP has no 640k barrier, so this question is not appropriate for the
DJGPP mailing list.

> then why somebody like microsoft(creater of ms dos)didn't redesigned
> dos so that there could be no 640 kb memory limit...

They did.  It's called Windows.

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