From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8:25:01 PM UTC+8, Joe Monk wrote:   
   > > You think the entire MSDOS has been written   
   > > with no assumptions about 4 bit shifts?   
   > >   
   > > You could be right. I've never looked at the   
   > > MSDOS source code except for one bit   
   > > someone pointed me to so that I could see   
   > > the word Xenix.   
      
   I just remembered - if you are using huge pointers for   
   any reason, you need to know the shift value in order   
   to be able to adjust the segment register.   
      
   I think it is impossible for MSDOS to manage more than   
   64k of memory, ie 640k or 1 MB or 2 MB without huge   
   pointers or equivalent.   
      
   BFN. Paul.   
      
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