Running DOS Apps on Windows
It's worth discussing how all this works so you understand the
challenges that are being overcome here. The ability to run multiple DOS
programs at once is a pretty neat trick, given that this software heralds
from an era of computing that was just barely ahead of what the
Apple ][ was doing in 1978. If you want to skip this, go ahead.
The root of the problem is that the IBM PCs basic architecture
crystallized a very long time ago, in 1981. In a world where ten kilobytes of RAM counted for
about...
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