From: "J. Yazel" <jyazel AT nls DOT net>
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Subject: Re: regarding dos 640kb barrier
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:43:26 EDT
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:54:43 -0400
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On 30 Jul 2003 01:42:24 -0700, ypjofficial AT indiatimes DOT com (yogesh)
wrote:

>hi all!!
>i have one question whose convincing answer i couldn' find in any
>book.
>everybody knows that dos has 640kb barrier..and hence this makes dos
>inefficient...
>my question is if dos is such a weak operating system..then why
>somebody like microsoft(creater of ms dos)didn't redesigned dos so
>that there could be no 640 kb memory limit...why they chose to develop
>memory managers like himem and extended memory manager etc....
>why microsft waited for winnt to eradicate dos...??? why ms didn't do
>it before...
>hope i am clear in conveying my question...
>regds,
>yogesh
  ===============================

  They did redesign Dos.

  They removed the 640 limit, added a few "goodies" and
changed the name to Windows.

     Jack