Well, here we are. Six weeks after announcing my hiatus, and two months or so after actually writing and scheduling the announcement, and the Platform Guides page is fully updated. I’ve given…| Bumbershoot Software
Since the last article on the text-based IDEs of old, I’ve been meaning to write about the GCC port to DOS, namely DJGPP. As I worked on the draft for that topic, I realized that there is a ton of ground to cover to set the stage so I took most of the content on memory management out and wrote this separate post. This article is a deep dive on how DOS had to pull out tricks to maximize the use of the very limited 1 MB address space of the 8086. Those tricks could exist because of the featur...| Julio Merino (jmmv.dev)
A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086| blogsystem5.substack.com