Re: Microsoft's XMS spec

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From: Wolfgang Strobl
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1990 17:31

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minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519) writes:

>In the neverending quest for a use for my extended memory, I have
>chanced upon Microsoft's package for XMS - a supposed standard for
>using extended memory.

>It looks pretty nifty to program, including an extra 64k segment for
>free if you know where to ask for it.

>However, do any applications use it? I am aware that 4DOS 3.0 will
>swap into XMS, and that this even works.. Any other programs take
>advantage of it?

>Is it possible to get XMS and vdisk.sys to coexist? The documentation
>says no. Is there a RAMdisk program out there for extended memory that
>will coexist with XMS?

MS Windows 3 uses XMS. And it comes with a RAM disk which uses XMS.

Wolfgang Strobl
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