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Comment by blueflow

7 hours ago

Its not just good, its the maximum you can get with MS-DOS. The remaining 3 kb are the interrupt table, the BDA and the IO.SYS stub.

This was detailed in Geoff Chapells "DOS Internals". I loved that book.

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markus_zhang  6 hours ago

BTW for anyone interested, Geoff Chapells has a wonderful website dedicated to Microsoft OS internals. RIP Geoff.

5o1ecist  6 hours ago

Wow, you're saying I've literally maxxed it out?

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