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From: liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: emm40.sys - expanded memory
Message-ID: <BX8NYT2@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 02:06:12 GMT
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Reply-To: liberato%drivax@uunet.uu.net (Jimmy Liberato)
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darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:

>So why did Lotus/Intel/Microsoft invent the new names.  Are they trying
>to make people think that they invented something new?  I can see them
>siting around a table cackling over the fact that "extended" sounds so
>much like "expanded" that they will be able to confuse the maximum number
>of users with that terminology.

Yes, and add the fact that IBM likes to call extended memory expansion
memory (not to be confused with expanded memory). 

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