alt Hacker NewsPretty sure Enhanced Mode, that only came later in Windows 3.11 for Workgroup, is the one that supported the flat addressing mode.
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vasvir • today at 7:46 AM
yep that's my recollection too
Pretty sure Enhanced Mode, that only came later in Windows 3.11 for Workgroup, is the one that supported the flat addressing mode.
yep that's my recollection too
Enhanced mode was already in 3.0 (and I think allowed for flat addressing)
However, Win32s was introduced in 3.11 which a subset of the Windows 32-bit API from NT.
3.11 also introduced 32-bit disk access and 32-bit drivers.
Microsoft did 32-bit in steps -- it was confusing already back then.