What's so special about the UMB?

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From: Don Hosek
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 04:38

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What is it about the first 64K of extended mem that makes it so
special to DOS 5.0, DESQview, et alia? It seems that there should
be no more trouble accessing any other 64K block of extended mem
than the UMB, but I'm acknowledgedly ignorant of such things...

-dh

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