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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question: expanded memory on 386
Message-ID: <1928@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 23:59:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  2 23:59:45 1987
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In article <4310@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
<>Sorry Ted, but MS-DOS has a 640K byte limit.  Unless
<>you use a DOS extender you can't have programs running above
<>the 1Meg address boundry untill OS/2 comes out.
<
<Isn't there a commercial package that emulates LIM expanded memory, but
<really uses the 80286 extended memory?  The original question was about
<1-2-3:  I assume that Lotus's product can use the Lotus-Intel-Microsoft
<memory extension standard!

If there is a commercial package, how does it grab the memory addresses
being placed on the bus and how does it grab the IO port address that is
used to run an EMM board?

If, per chance, there is an interrupt call being used, then the answer
is there.  Not knowing the spec, I was just wondering.
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