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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: weakness in the LIM EMS 4.0 spec
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Date: 2 Feb 90 23:27:35 GMT
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In article <25C87DEC.22918@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
|   There's a very good reason that the program (EMS40.SYS) does this.

I understand that the program will be valuable to some people and I
am not knocking it. My complaint is that if a program like this can
truly be said to be EMS 4.0, (and I think it can) then the 4.0 standard
is so loose that it is almost useless as a means of shopping and
comparing products. I have just returned a 286 motherboard which was
EMS 4.0 because it was useless for multi-tasking.

I'm starting to think it's just a plot to make us buy 386SXs...

Did you realize that the E000 segment is useless on a 286 (unless you
have a Chargecard) but a 386 will let you use it?

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