-------------Original Message(s): Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:05:46 -0800 From: "Eric J Korpela" <korpela at ssl.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: *updating* 8088's On Nov 20, 2007 5:34 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote: I got my 386DX in 89. Very few, if any, MS-DOS games relied on 32bit extenders at that point. It cut out too much of the market that still had 16bit processors. It would have been nice not to push so hard to have 635k low memory free in order to run the latest game. The most used feature of the 386 was V86 mode, and it was mostly used to free up memory for 16bit MS-DOS programs. Eric ---------------Reply: And then there were the MMUs that gave your PC/XT/AT almost the entire 1MB for DOS, and up to 10MB or so of extended memory for running Unix, PC-MOS386 and the like on your XT (if you really wanted to)... m m