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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Memory in Compaq 386
Message-ID: <6019@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 89 19:04:36 GMT
References: <1538@draken.nada.kth.se>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <1538@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-eli@nada.kth.se (Erik Liljencrantz) writes:
}like them to be). CEMM is a memory hog. It consumes 33Kb conventional memory
}and gives me 256Kb EMS memory. It also degrades the performance of the
}CPU (from 33Mhz to 31Mhz according to Landmark).

Not surprising, since you have to turn on Virtual-86 mode to be able to 
emulate EMS on the 386, which means that *every* memory access has to go 
through the on-chip memory managment unit, which it doesn't have to do in real
mode.

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