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Re:The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS by ghaff on Saturday June 09, 2018 @05:16PM (#17275044)
The effort that so many went to in order to grab a few K of memory here and there in the DOS world to get some game to load or to otherwise cram something into a limited address space.

In a way, it was even worse than that because the DOS COM file format had even more limits around the 64K segments.

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Re:The 640K memory limit of MS-DOS by Narishma on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:23PM (#17278807)
The EXE format has none of those limitations and was available from day 1.
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