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From: georgf@polari.UUCP (George Forsman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS 640K barrier?
Message-ID: <1552@polari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 90 03:29:48 GMT
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Reply-To: georgf@.UUCP (George Forsman)
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In article <2624014d:139.1comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@tronsbox.UUCP> akcs.reed@tronsbox.UUCP (reed) writes:
>Hmm, well no-ones abolished the direct 640 Kb limit under MS-DOS, yet. The
>extenders ARE quite expensive, from $2400 on up if I remember correctly. And
>the only languages supported (by Microsoft) for OS/2 are C and assembler.

and Pascal, and FORTRAN, and BASIC.  C is the language of choice, and thus
examples are given in C.  However, the other languages are supported as well.

  -George
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