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Type of computer software program
A DOS extender is a computer software program running under DOS that enables software to run in a protected mode environment even though the host operating system is only capable of operating in real mode. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: DOS extenderA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Interdomain Coordination Determines Polyketide Extender Unit Specificity in UK‐2A BiosynthesisInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: TNT DOS-extender reference manualThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the Effects of Amylose-Extender Mutation in Rice EndospermCited 553 times
- Go sideways: DJGPPA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Phar Lap SoftwareA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the Effects of Amylose-Extender Mutation in Rice Endosperm
Rotator and extender ferroelectrics: Importance of the shear coefficient to the piezoelectric properties of domain-engineered crystals and ceramics
Extender-based Magidor-Radin forcing
Reader Extender of Capsule Endoscopy
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕TNT DOS-extender reference manual · 1993
- 📕Programming the TNT realtime DOS-extender · 1996
- 📕Windows interface guide · 1994
- 📕Abrindo espaçosCândido Alberto da Costa Gomes · 2008
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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