Relive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations https://hackaday.com/2023/04/15/relive-the-glory-days-of-sun-workstations/ #SunMicrosystems #Retrocomputing #retrocomputing #solaris #sparc #SunOS #QEMM

Relive the Glory Days of Sun Workstations - When the IBM PC first came out, it was little more than a toy. The serious people ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/04/15/relive-the-glory-days-of-sun-workstations/ #sunmicrosystems #retrocomputing #solaris #sparc #sunos #qemm

People reminded me about the tricks and hoops we had to jump through during the #DOS age to get all the games work as some required lots of conventional memory, some wanted #ExpandedMemory and others #eXtendedMemory. IIRC I managed to get 614KB conventional memory with regular extended memory managers and 621KB without them. With #QEMM that could be boosted over 630KB and still have extended memory available. #computing #computers #RAM #MemoryManagement

People reminded me about the tricks and hoops we had to jump through during the #DOS age to get all the games work as some required lots of conventional memory, some wanted #ExpandedMemory and others #eXtendedMemory. IIRC I managed to get 614KB with extended memory managers and 621KB without them without additional software. With #QEMM that could be boosted over 630KB and still have extended memory available. #computing #computers #RAM #MemoryManagement