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From: silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: XMS to EMS driver wanted
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.172759.2583@xrtll.uucp>
Date: 1 Jan 91 17:27:59 GMT
References: <999@pdxgate.UUCP> <1990Dec29.173158.25522@xrtll.uucp> <1011@pdxgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: silver@xrtll.UUCP (Hi Ho Silver)
Organization: Yeah, right.
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In article <1011@pdxgate.UUCP> berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) writes:
$  Also, I thought XMS boards were just sorta "generic" with no varying
$fancy built-in hardware unlike EMS boards. As far as I know, mine is
$just plain vanilla, of which I am able to use HIMEM.SYS and any utils.
$that support extended memory.

   There are some boards which are designed to be used solely as extended
memory.  There are others which are designed to be used as extended, expanded,
or some mixture of the two.

$  BTW, is UMB (Upper Memory Block) the same as EMS ? I haven't been able
$to determine exactly what it is. Thanx.

   Nope, it's part of XMS.  I recently read a magazine article about XMS;
I think it was in PC Magazine in the last month or so, so you might want
to look for that.
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