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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Software that use Expanded Memory
Message-ID: <1990Dec22.202443.6992@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 22 Dec 90 20:24:43 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.213022.13487@contact.uucp>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Not around here, pal!
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In article <1990Dec17.213022.13487@contact.uucp> yung@contact.uucp () writes:
$From all the stuff that I've read, almost everybody agrees that Expanded
$memory is much more popular than extended memory. But strangely, I simply
$cannot recall any commercial software on the market today, besides Desqivew,
$Windows and Lotus, actually use expanded memory. Can any kind soul give
$me a list on what software uses expanded memory?

   There's lots of software out there that uses expanded memory.  1-2-3 and
Symphony do (though for 1-2-3 Release 3.x, you're better off with extended).
WordPerfect does.  Windows does, though once again version 3 is better off
with extended - at least on a 386.  Desqview does.  GoScript does.  Any
program written in Clipper does unless you tell it not to.  I'm not sure
whether or not dBASE IV does.  Turbo Profiler, Turbo Debugger and Turbo
C++ do.  The more recent Novell NetWare shells can be set to use EMS.

   Generally, any program that uses more than just conventional memory will
use expanded memory; only those which require a 286 or 386 will usually
use extended.  So most spreadsheets, for example, will use expanded memory.

PS - Are you the Amos Yung who was a classmate of mine at McMaster?
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