As I already explained to Denis in private email:
a) It's not "BIOS breakage"; it's standard behaviour for DOS'
HIMEM.SYS. LOADLIN must have dealt with it, I don't know through
what exact method.
b) If we put this in the kernel, real systems will break. This isn't
a "maybe", it's a "definitely."
-hpa
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