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Article #10894Re: What's so special about the UMB?
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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 15:36
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1991 15:36
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In article <1991Jun06.030024.1439@cs.fau.edu> eric@cs.fau.edu (Eric Thav) writes: >In article <1991May30.213856.1@freke.claremont.edu> dhosek@freke.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes: >>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 > >area can access that 64K block as CONVENTIONAL MEMORY. Microsoft, when >Windows 2.0 was introduced, "discovered" this area suddenly and developed the >HIMEM.SYS driver to access it. Actually, Quarterdeck "discovered" this area. Microsoft just made more of a big deal about it, and seems to have gotten most of credit, which is typical.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!lhc!usenet From: usenet@nlm.nih.gov (usenet news poster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: What's so special about the UMB? Message-ID: <1991Jun6.153609.2489@nlm.nih.gov> Date: 6 Jun 91 15:36:09 GMT References: <1991May30.213856.1@freke.claremont.edu> <1991Jun06.030024.1439@cs.fau.edu> Reply-To: werner@bio.NLM.NIH.GOV (Craig Werner) Distribution: usa Organization: National Library of Medicine Lines: 12