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DOS Memory Management

Posted on February 27, 2026 by Michal Necasek

The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention. DOS 1.x (1981) had no explicit memory management support. It was designed to run … Continue reading →

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