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From: mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: EMS spec
Message-ID: <497@gouldsd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Apr-87 11:38:35 EST
Article-I.D.: gouldsd.497
Posted: Thu Apr 23 11:38:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 03:43:55 EST
Organization: Gould Electronics, Landover MD.
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Keywords: so how *does* it work ?


	I want to look into writing an EMS driver into the RAMdisk driver.
Can anyone out there give me pointers to how the EMS hardware is accessed
by software ? I have a feeeling it's a dreadful kluge, but it might be nice
to be able to free up more RAM by stuffing the RAMdisk into kluge-mem.

	Ideas ? Comments ? How does a user program access the extra memory ?
Do I have to specifically jigger my addresses ? If anyone out there does
have an answer, please slant it towards someone who is more or less
hardware illiterate. I have a good grasp of addressing, and some
machine lang, and I can figure anything out given enough caffeine

--mjr()

--
	If a million monkeys program a million IBM PCs for a million years,
they will write something much better than MS-DOS. It will probably run
faster, multitask,  and really support wildcards.  User support will be
dramatically improved.						-me