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Re: emm40.sys - expanded memory

#2556
From: Einar Indridason
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 1990 00:04
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In article <1990Aug18.131250.18988@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>In article <1990Aug16.202610.28641@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> levericw@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>>From article <90228.143145RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>, by <RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>:
>>> Extended memory is different from expanded.... You can designate some
>>> expanded memory to be treated as expanded, but you cannot go the
>   ^^^^^^^^ <--- He means extended

What about some mnemonics?

exTended is memory on Top of the 1MBYTE limit.  Notice the 'T'
                      ^^^

exPanded is memory that is Paged in.  Notice the 'P'
                           ^^^^^
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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: emm40.sys - expanded memory
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Date: 19 Aug 90 00:04:47 GMT
References: <90228.143145RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> <1990Aug16.202610.28641@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <1990Aug18.131250.18988@druid.uucp>
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