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smace wrote:

>   The primary machine I am using is an old Toshiba T1000 8088
> 1.6 Meg of memory, one 720 k floppy.

The 8086/8 has only 1 MB (20-bits) of address space.  If there is 1.6 MB RAM,
and this really is an 8088, the extra 1 MB is in EXPANDED memory, which is a
hardware paging system (and not supported here.)

> There is
> something very pleasing to see an old 8088 running 3 users on a very
> small OS setup.  Can not do much, but it does work.

Ditto for my 286!

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