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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: XMS to EMS driver wanted
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Date: 31 Dec 90 06:19:12 GMT
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silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) writes:

>   The reason you see so many drivers for the 386 is that its memory
>management hardware includes the ability to map 4K chunks of memory from
>anywhere in its address space to anywhere else.  This makes it relatively
>easy to write an EMS simulator - the CPU does almost all of the work for
>you.

  I figured anyone who purchased a 386 would have all the stuff come with
with it. All one needs in there is a good, reliable, and fast XMS to EMS
4.0 driver and that's it. How come every software package comes with 
their own drivers? 


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