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Article #41542Re: weakness in the LIM EMS 4.0 spec
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 23:27
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 23:27
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In article <25C87DEC.22918@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
| There's a very good reason that the program (EMS40.SYS) does this.
I understand that the program will be valuable to some people and I
am not knocking it. My complaint is that if a program like this can
truly be said to be EMS 4.0, (and I think it can) then the 4.0 standard
is so loose that it is almost useless as a means of shopping and
comparing products. I have just returned a 286 motherboard which was
EMS 4.0 because it was useless for multi-tasking.
I'm starting to think it's just a plot to make us buy 386SXs...
Did you realize that the E000 segment is useless on a 286 (unless you
have a Chargecard) but a 386 will let you use it?
--
Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
It's a boy!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!amdcad!pepsi!phil From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: weakness in the LIM EMS 4.0 spec Message-ID: <29037@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 2 Feb 90 23:27:35 GMT References: <28980@amdcad.AMD.COM> <25C87DEC.22918@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Sender: news@amdcad.AMD.COM Reply-To: phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Sunnyvale CA Lines: 18