Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!eos!aio!riddler!yow From: yow@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Yow) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Epanded, Extended & Reserved Message-ID: <1991Apr5.103612@riddler.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 5 Apr 91 16:36:12 GMT References: <1991Apr4.182459.12299@ingres.Ingres.COM> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Reply-To: yow@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Bill Yow) Organization: nasa-jsc Lines: 56 >>Hi! Netters, >> Can someone explain the differences between these three types >>of memories. Please provide sufficient details. >> >>Thanks > God! Somebody should write a book about this! Sandeep, I've read several Someone has written a book about Expanded, Extended and so on it is called: Extending DOS by Ray Duncan, Charles Petzold, M. Steven Baker, Andrew Schulman, Stephen R. Davis, Ross P. Nelson and Robert Moote. Published by Addison Wesley ISBN 0-201-55053-9 First Printing, April 1990 From the Table of Contents: Chapter 1 The IBM PC Programming Architecture Chapter 2 Expanded Memory and the EMS Chapter 3 Extended Memory and the XMS Chapter 4 80286-based Protected-Mode DOS Extenders Chapter 5 80386-based Protected-Mode DOS Extenders Chapter 6 The Windows Operating Environment Chapter 7 DESQview Chapter 8 VCPI for EMS/DOS Extender Compatibility Chapter 9 The DOS Protected-Mode Interface (DMPI) Chapter 10 Multitasking and DOS Extenders A very good book. Bill Yow yow@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov My opinions are my own.