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From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What's Extented memory good for??
Keywords: extended memory help
Message-ID: <25171E6E.2EC3@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 89 05:21:50 GMT
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Reply-To: liberato@drivax.UUCP
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA
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glen@sunscreen.UUCP (Glen Ivey) writes:

>Expanded Memory == Memory that lies below 1Mb, and is accessed by
 
 Right. It's initially confusing to think I might have a 2 Meg expanded
 memory board that "lies below 1Mb."  It is the paged "window" that resides
 at that address.

>bank switching using the LIM protocol.  (If there is something called
>"expanded" that does not use LIM, I'd be interested in hearing about
>it.)

 Well, there also is the AQA (AST/Quadram/um um...Ashton-Tate?) protocol 
 in addition to the mentioned Lotus/Intel/Microsoft one.  This is what 
 those great Rampage boards used. (REMM.SYS instead of EMM.SYS).  The main
 advantage was one of speed over the earlier LIM standard.  The question is
 moot, however, with the advent of the LIM 4.0 standard which I believe they
 have all agreed (thankfully) to subscribe.

--
Jimmy Liberato   ...!amdahl!drivax!liberato                              
     "My life is conventional and uneventful.  It allows me to think with
      passion and violence." -John Updike