The Lobsters discussion was very interesting. Some people in there were extremely knowledgeable, but also very confrontational. Coming straight in going "that's all wrong!" is not a productive way to start a discussion IMHO.
I didn't get any very firm conclusions from it. There are some very knowledgeable people out there on the WWW claiming, with convincing arguments, that Windows/286 couldn't run in 286 mode and only gave you 640kB ("conventional memory" in DOS terminology)+ 64kB HMA.
Others, including from Microsoft, say no, Windows/286 did run in protect mode and could access 16MB of (segmented) RAM.
The Lobsters discussion was very interesting. Some people in there were extremely knowledgeable, but also very confrontational. Coming straight in going "that's all wrong!" is not a productive way to start a discussion IMHO.
I didn't get any very firm conclusions from it. There are some very knowledgeable people out there on the WWW claiming, with convincing arguments, that Windows/286 couldn't run in 286 mode and only gave you 640kB ("conventional memory" in DOS terminology)+ 64kB HMA.
Others, including from Microsoft, say no, Windows/286 did run in protect mode and could access 16MB of (segmented) RAM.
I do not know for sure who is right.