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From: benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Use extended memory as EMS?
Keywords: EMS, Extended memory
Message-ID: <159@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 89 05:30:18 GMT
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Reply-To: benderly@cs.columbia.edu (Dan Benderly)
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In article <913@ttrde.UUCP> pfales@ttrde.UUCP (Peter Fales) writes:
-So how do they do this??  I have a theory, but it sounds like the
-cure is worse than the disease.  I think they steal 64K (out of your
-640) and use the INT 15 extended memory block copy to copy data in and

-Peter Fales			AT&T, Room 2F-217
-				200 Park Plaza
-UUCP:	...att!ttrde!pfales	Naperville, IL 60566
-Domain: pfales@ttrde.att.com	work:	(312) 416-5357		

I don't know technically how they work, but I do know that they take 64K of
conventrional memeory, which makes them almost useless at times.

Dan


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