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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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