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From: ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Uses for Lotus/Intel Extended Memory
Message-ID: <810@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 14:02:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 14:02:25 1987
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Summary: everyone can use EMS (LIM) expanded memory *REAL SOON*



 
In followup to lamentations on how to make use of extend memory
(EMS/LIM expansion memory boards), here is a little info:

With the coming advent of PC-DOS 3.4, the operating system will
support EMS memory.   This will be transparent to any program, allowing
any program to take advantage of the extra memory.

Of course, it remains to be seen how well this works, but removing the
EMS support from programs and putting it into the OS is the right way
to go.  Hardware EMS memory compatible with EMS 4.0 will be compatible
with PC-DOS 3.4 which is rumored for April-June '88 release.