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From: luis@grinch.UUCP (luis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Uses for Lotus/Intel Extended Memory
Message-ID: <268@grinch.grinch.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 23:52:05 EST
Article-I.D.: grinch.268
Posted: Fri Nov 27 23:52:05 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Dec-87 05:45:07 EST
References: <1640@houxa.UUCP> <875@cblpf.ATT.COM> <810@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Reply-To: luis@grinch.UUCP (Luis Chanu)
Organization: Textural Software, San Jose, CA.
Lines: 24
Keywords: EMS, EEMS, PC-DOS 3.4
Summary: How about EEMS?  Where does it fall into all this?

In article <810@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> ward@cfa.harvard.EDU (Steve Ward) writes:
>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.

I am wondering about one thing though...  Where will EEMS (Extended Memory)
fall with all this?  I have heard rumers that EMS 4.0 and EEMS are the same
thing... Is this true?  If not, then how do they differ?  I guess, I am
wondering if my 2MB EEMS memory in my AT will work?

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