From 0 to 1 MB in DOS
A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
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A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086
The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer SmartDrive, DiskCopy... it's life at Redmond in the DOS era Richard Speed Wed 6 Jan 2021 // 09:10 UTC Share Copy Interview Everyone remembers their first time. It might be Commodore-flavoured, or carry a whiff of Sinclair about it. For former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, it was a TRS-80 in a 1979 Radio Shack. Plummer now runs a YouTube channel stuffed full of nerdery, though decades ago he played a role in the rise of Microsoft, contributed to MS-DOS, wrote Windows components familiar to all, and stuffed Micr...