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Re: Computer Question - DTC

Jonathan Boles wrote:

> its a so-called runtime environment for setting up memory etc. for running
> DOS programs. Its fairly standardised, and you will find that a dos program
> will load the environment first, then start the program.

It allows DOS programs to access memory above 640kb which is the memory limit
that DOS had when it was first created. Just about all the most recent DOS
programs used DOS/4GW.

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