Just guessin.
This relates to the A20 switch logic, and access to mem above 1M.
It was eihter switched off and wrapped around, or enabled.
Randy
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:13:02 +0100
From: afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk
To:
Subject: Re: Sigh, progresss is.....
On 12/05/2010 08:38, Eric Smith wrote:
On 05/11/2010 09:37 PM, Jos Dreesen wrote:
when you are trying to revive an IBM 5150, that :
[...]
- you don't remember which is the last DOS
version that runs on a
standard 5150
As far as I know, all releases of IBM PC DOS/IBM DOS through 6.x
and
MS-DOS through 6.x work on a 5150. I'm not sure about IBM PC DOS 7, IBM
PC DOS 2000, or MS-DOS 7.x.
Obviously some features of the later versions of DOS aren't going to
work on the 5150, e.g., EMM386.
Well yes, but that's kinda like saying that (for example) fdisk won't
work without a hard disk....because the hardware is not there to use it
:) :)
Phill.
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