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From: scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Extended, Expanded.  LIM 3.2 v.s. LIM 4.0
Message-ID: <140@thor.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 15:32:47 GMT
References: <26219@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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In article <26219@bellcore.bellcore.com>, wind@cellar.bae.bellcore.com (Wind Chen) writes:
> [ an EXCELLENT monograph on extended, expanded, etc. memory but
>   perpetuating the confusion about:
> "LIM 3.2 and LIM 4.0 are different and LIM 4.0 requires hardware support"

For the last time (I hope):

LIM 4.0 is a standard that was developed by a committee with lots of
personal priorities.  As such, it is a nearly useless compromise.
What it says is basically, "If you want to offer these functions,
here is how you should do it."  It does not require any functions
that would require any different hardware than LIM 3.2 did.  It
ALLOWS them, and gives a standard way to access them, but it does
NOT REQUIRE them.

Thus, "Does this board support LIM 4.0?" is almost NEVER the
question you want to ask since the answer is basically meaningless.
If you want to know "Does this board support multitasking?" or
"Can DesqView use this board to do multitasking?" then those are
the questions you should ask, not whether it supports LIM 4.0 or
not.
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