DOSemu - Does it work?

M.W. Chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:58:50 PDT 2004


It meant switching the CPU to a mode so as to access more than 1M of
memory(those HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.SYS, QEMM kind of things). Remember the
640K memory limit of DOS?

> I could be wrong; but I think I remember hearing that DOS emulation didn't 
> work for applications that used "protected mode".  That stuck in my mind 
> because I didn't know what "protected mode" meant.

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