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Great bit of history.

The nugget I hadn’t heard before is how the 386 enabling DOS extenders really threw the whole product strategy for a loop.

I wonder if that was a happy side effect of Intel’s other goals, or if there was design intention to enable DOS to break the 640K barrier.






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