C integral types [was Re: Semi-OT: Why Kids Can't use Computers] (fwd)

[James Knott]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> which would give 256 megabytes of real mode for DOS (28 bits).  OS/2,
> EMS, XMS, HIMEM, etc would never have seen the light of day.

There were more problems with DOS than just memory space.  It was single
tasking, among other issue, such as poor I/O support.

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