Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!wind!hundt From: hundt@wind.bellcore.com (tom hundt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Extended vs. Expanded Mem -- mnemonic device to remember Message-ID: <3933@bellcore.bellcore.com> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 12:14:01 EST Article-I.D.: bellcore.3933 Posted: Mon Nov 30 12:14:01 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 04:15:45 EST Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com Distribution: comp Organization: Bellcore, Morristown, NJ Lines: 16 >pop-up, it can stay resident in expanded memory. (Um, expanded is LIM >EMS, and extended is 286 protected mode, right?) PC Tools lists for My friend Tom Reingold (tr@bellcore.com) told me a funny way to remember the difference: Expanded sounds like "fat", therefore expanding sideways (ie. bank switching, ie. EMS) Extended sounds "long and thin", therefore expanding lengthwise (ie. linear, ie. higher address, ie. 286 protected mode). /-^-\ Thomas M. Hundt / BELLCORE Morristown NJ / hundt@bellcore.bellcore.com | | {seismo|ihnp4|ucbvax|decvax|ulysses|allegra|clyde}!bellcore!hundt /--_--\