sudleyplace/386MAX
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386MAX Memory Manager for DOS
3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2024-01-19 · latest 2024-12-18
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…could do way more in plain old DOS. There were memory managers like QEMM386 and 386Max. (Now FOSS: https://github.com/sudleyplace/386MAX ) For power users they could multitask. There was a brief flowering of multitasking DOS extensions and…
comment by lproven · 2024-12-18 · in A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization -
386Max is now GPL FOSS. https://github.com/sudleyplace/386MAX It would be great if someone could update it so it ran on modern hardware. Then, for instance, FreeDOS could use it.
comment by lproven · 2024-11-26 · in Revisiting the DOS Memory Models -
…rival 386Max is now FOSS, so if you are really really curious you could take it apart and study it. https://github.com/sudleyplace/386MAX Closest you will get for now, I fear. I think I read that Symantec lost or erased all the Quarterdeck…
comment by lproven · 2024-01-19 · in How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086