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From: berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
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Subject: Re: XMS to EMS driver wanted
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Date: 3 Jan 91 00:02:59 GMT
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silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) writes:

>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.

  Hmmm, many programs say they can use UMB, but gripe when I try to use it
on my machine. But I'll look for that article.
  I've had several recommendations for commercial packages; TURBO EMS and 
QRAM are the most common replies. I'm still try to get more info on them,
our braindead mailer doesn't like the address given by the senders.(sigh)

  Anyway, thanks for all of your help!

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