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  • ...int-to-point links only. Introduction of file transfer (FAL), remote file access (DAP), task-to-task programming interfaces and network management features. ...ntroduction of adaptive routing capability, downline loading (MOP), record access, a network management architecture, and gateways to other types of networks
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  • ...ude [[DIGITAL Command Language|DCL]] as a choice for the CLI, giving users access to essentially the same command language used in [[RSX-11]] and, later, [[V ...d as one file without being separated into pieces, similar to files on a [[Microsoft Windows]] system after a drive has been [[defragementation|defragmented]]),
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  • ...with each other, and to use each other's machines. In those halcyon days, access was unrestricted; you could get on from any machine connected to the net, o .... jargon) could somehow be brought to more people. But very few people had access to the large computers that could run Zork. More and more people were begin
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  • ...collaborative effort between [[International Business Machines|IBM]] and [[Microsoft]] to put together the next generation [[operating system]] for the [[IBM AT Microsoft, famous for hedging bets, started the [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] project around the same time, as a low cost entry interfa
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  • ...it needed so much memory. Although I was always under the impression that Microsoft had their compilers ported to a [[VAX]] and [[cross-compiler|cross-compiled
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  • With MS-DOS installed and able to access a CD-ROM, you will need a blank floppy image, in addition to either an ISO ...naturally detect NO SCSI drivers. I recommend changing the mouse to the "Microsoft Mouse Port Mouse (including BallPoint)" driver. It will then go thru the m
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  • Windows NT is [[Microsoft]]'s first home built 32bit OS. ...OS & Windows binaries with an improved 32bit OS/2 API & Windowing system. Microsoft hired Dave Cutler away from [[Digital]] to help with the implementation of
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  • This is the NT 3.1 HCL retreived from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-docs/hcl/HCL31/MAY94HCL.TXT Microsoft Windows NT Version 3.1
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  • | creator = Microsoft ...ree to make improvements to its current [[real mode]] 16-bit environment [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]].
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  • A '''Virtual DOS Machine''' ('''VDM''' for short) is a term used by [[Microsoft]] to denote a Virtual-8086 task, a special execution envronment of the [[In ...rdware, emulates the intended function the real-mode program was trying to access, or terminates the real-mode program if it is trying to do something that c
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  • One of the more popular versions was the Microsoft ROM version, which was used in many machines. ...as [[Visual Basic]] a pseudo Object Oriented version for programming the [[Microsoft Windows]] environments. And finally the [[Visual Basic .net]] language whi
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  • ...lowing for a flat memory space where the entire 4GB of accessible [[Random Access Memory|RAM]] could be accessed without [[segment]]ation. The 386 was introd Since there was no 386-specific software at its launch, Compaq pushed [[Microsoft]] to release [[Windows/386]] before Windows 2.0 so that there would be some
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  • ...it had a 24-bit [[address bus]] to allow access for up to 16MB of [[Random Access Memory|RAM]], and a [[virtual address|virtual]] [[address space]] of 1GB. T ...hing the CPU from protected mode to [[real mode]]. It was Gordon Letwin of Microsoft who found a way, using a [[triple fault]] to soft reset the 286 into real m
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  • Microsoft Windows NT Version 3.5 access as well as for the audio capabilities indicated.
    279 KB (34,581 words) - 03:21, 17 December 2018
  • ...uct co-developed by the two companies, which is an enhanced version of the Microsoft Windows operating environment compatible with Windows 2.0. ...lso gives each DOS application up to 640 K random access memory (RAM) plus access to expanded memory through use of a built-in LIM software driver.
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  • ...3,741,824), and a 24bit memory bus (2^24 is 16,777,216), allowing users to access 16MB of RAM. ...MS-DOS programs as they simply will not function in protected mode. IBM & Microsoft started to collaborate on this new OS, called OS/2. The biggest obstacle th
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  • io port access from user processes doesn't randomly work/fail. now must open /dev/mem to get access. (cgd)
    29 KB (4,794 words) - 18:15, 16 December 2018
  • With MS-DOS installed and able to access a CD-ROM, you will need a blank floppy image, in addition to either an ISO ...naturally detect NO SCSI drivers. I recommend changing the mouse to the "Microsoft Mouse Port Mouse (including BallPoint)" driver. It will then go thru the m
    6 KB (997 words) - 11:22, 9 June 2023
  • ...of shipping [[database]] [[application]]s prior to the rise of [[Microsoft Access]]. Clipper applications ran under [[MS-DOS]]. As time went by there were e
    566 bytes (85 words) - 18:37, 18 December 2018
  • o 16MB Addressable Random Access Memory Support 16MB Addressable Random Access Memory Support
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