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From: palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EMS Support on a 386
Message-ID: <332@fiver.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 11:02:11 GMT
References: <918.2504C171@busker.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Fiver Communications  Fremont, Ca
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From article <918.2504C171@busker.FIDONET.ORG>, by Howard.Spindel@p8.f14.n105.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Howard Spindel):
> Posted because mailer keeps bouncing message...
>  
> restore EMS context, and several other functions.  The EMS hardware
> provides the ability to quickly bank switch blocks of EMS RAM into
> a 64K page in the first megabyte of the address space.  The EMS

  How long does it take to bankswitch? Are interupts enabled 
  during bankswitch?
  I was wondering if it would affect communications programs to
  the point that you would loose characters at 9600bps.

---Bob

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