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		TMWNN on Jan 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address s... What benefit comes from this?

jesuslop on Jan 19, 2024 [–]

None concrete I can think about, apart from understanding better the innards of windows boot with a whacky experiment. DPMI was an open spec, so this validated that in principle you could write your own DPMI host to make windows think it was running on top of a protected mode whose view to clients you could control and customize. But again can't answer to what avail.

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