but also posed countless issues for DOS-based applications as they tried to make use of memory beyond the legacy 1 MB address space. The initial ways to deal with this like EMS, XMS and UMB were ...

Today’s memory sticks have hundreds of pins and many gigabytes of RAM on board ... which topped out at a feeble 1 MB. We get to see four of his 16 MB sticks installed in a 386 motherboard ...