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From: moran@dri.com (Mike Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win3 to support mem management
Message-ID: <000N0LQ@dri.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 19:07:55 GMT
References: <1990Aug20.191715.19173@amd.com>
Organization: Digital Research Inc
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phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:

>Today's PC Week reports that Microsoft has announced that support
>will be provided for third party memory management programs such
>as QEMM and 386Max to work with Windows 3.0. This came after the
>companies had reverse engineered the Win3 interface and MS customers
>complained about the incompatibility of their valued m.m. programs
>with Win3. The support from MS will mean more reliable operation
>across Win upgrades since MS will be responsible for providing
>a driver interface.

The complete source code and specifications for the HIMEM.SYS driver
have been floating around on BBSs lately.  I assume that Microsoft
released this stuff.

-- 
Michael A. Moran
Digital Research
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Monterey, CA 93940