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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 23:48:31 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   Finally read up about the mysterious“WINA20.386” file in MS-DOS and it’s just as boring as you’d think

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 23:55:35 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     tl;dr it’s essentially a patch for Windows 3.0 that prevents conflicts with MS-DOS when addressing memory above 1MB

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     Imran Nazar (two9a@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 00:07:46 JST Imran Nazar

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     @thomasfuchs I always enjoy the tale of the A20 gate. Whenever you have to write _in the official documentation_ "access to higher memory is controlled by this random line attached to the keyboard" you know someone fucked up.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 01:48:58 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Imran Nazar

     @Two9A it’s weird hacks all the way down