Xenix 286?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2/22/2006 at 2:39 PM Jim Leonard wrote:

>To be honest, they were right.  If you wanted more than 640K on a 286, 
>it was easier and faster to work with a hardware LIM EMS board than it 
>was to try to do it yourself via protected mode.  (I'm talking about the 
>period before HIMEM.SYS and the formalized XMS standard, but even then, 
>XMS copies RAM in and out of the 640K-space, whereas EMS would just 
>slide the window around which was a hell of a lot faster.)

Yes and no--if you were savvy enough to know how to use LOADALL, things got
somewhat simpler.

Cheers,
Chuck