First post, by aries-mu
Hello fellow retrocompusers 😁
We all know and remember well DOS' limitations in managing RAM.
What I always wanted, as a kid in the early 90s, was an "LH"-like program that would load WHATEVER.EXE/COM upper in the RAM. Only, instead of squeeze-loading it in the tiny ~300KB UMB area, it would load WHATEVER.EXE/COM upper, in the XMS.
Something like:
XL edit.com
and then Edit opens up but running in the XMS memory.
I was especially wondering about this when I start seeing the first games coming out that, when launching, before loading the actual game, they would load that "DOS4GW" thing, if I remember correctly its name, which would then load the game onto the XMS memory.
Any idea if anything like that ever existed or could be done nowadays with our super duper modern wannasghebs AI-enlightened minds and rigs?
Thanks!
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