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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: extended vs. expanded
Summary: misinformation
Message-ID: <23621@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 23 Nov 88 17:38:01 GMT
References: <1717I78BC@CUNYVM> <1090@esunix.UUCP> <1970@hoqax.UUCP> <7710@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <7710@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c9c-ba@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (George Voon) writes:
|When one buys a 286/386, the 1 Meg is not from 0-1024K, but from 0-640K
|plus 1024-1408.  The memory from 640-1024 is reserved for video, etc.
|Therefore, the extra 384K is extended memory.

This is not true. I am running right now a Taiwanese 286 clone with a
Suntac chip set. It allows you to set up the extra 384K as extended OR
expanded.  So the 384K is NOT always extended, although it usually is.

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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com
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