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I'm close to graduate in computer sciences and this article has absolutely no content to make things clear. -- 87.178.205.43 ( talk) 11:16, 15 September 2009 (UTC) reply

The article is short, but what's there seems pretty clear to me, maybe except the part about the DJGPP stub loader image. Could you elaborate? 77.250.97.191 ( talk) 22:13, 15 June 2012 (UTC) reply

Most probably OP never lived through the DOS-era. By his age, I'd say he was about 5-6 years old when Windows 95 was released, hence DPMI, ring0, tricks to use 4 GB, etc made him wonder "why!?". The article could do with an introduction explaining only 640 KB were available in DOS-time, EMS vs XMS vs..., etc. Pgquiles ( talk) 23:05, 22 October 2017 (UTC) reply