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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: IBM & MS DOS 5.0 - loadhigh on ATs
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Date: 21 Mar 91 18:10:53 GMT
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hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:

>In article <RICHARD.91Mar20164814@alpha.iesd.auc.dk> richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) writes:
>> 
>The key here is that you don't have a NEAT chipset and you also 
>probably don't have something like an INTEL AboveBoard.  You need
>the HARDWARE capability to support XMS or you cannot load device
>drivers high.  I went through this for several months and finally

s/XMS/EMS/p  (!!!)

That's my position.  You *need* EMS or something that can really emulate
it or else you simply cannot load high.  That's it.

Any extended memory can run XMS, but XMS cannot loadhi.