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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: 22 Mar 91 17:42:38 GMT
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hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:


>On my previous 286 where I could not load high because of no 
>HARDWARE XMS support, I ended up with 420k available for programs.

s/X/E/


The word is EMS.  EMS.  EMS.  XMS needs no hardware support (other than
the existence of a 286 or better and the physical memory)