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From: imp@Solbourne.COM (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Memory above 640K being redundant (or something like that)
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.231856.4307@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 91 23:18:56 GMT
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In article <27437@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>Couldn't you recover it for use with applications?

I suppose that it could.  However, the standard MS-DOS that get
shipped with PCs would recognize it.  I do know there is at least one
system (The DEC Rainbow) that allows you to have up to 896K and lets
all programs see all this memory w/o any XMS or EMS or anything at all
like that.  Too bad the Rainbow isn't PC compatable (it is a 8088 that
runs MS-DOS or CP/M).

Warner
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