Re: Basic windows questions

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From: Tom Knotts
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 18:42

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>here's where I get confused.....  PC Mag says that SmartDrive uses
>EXTENDED memory for the cashe.  I ordered the 160 Meg disk with ESDI
>controller and 32K cashe.  I believe that the Gateway cashe is
>hardware based.  So whether this is a problem or not remains to be
>seen.  I do wonder if the Gateway drivers let you partition the 4 Megs
>of memory so that say 1 Meg remains as extended and Windows 386 use
>whatever's left for EMS.

This brings up a question which I have. What is the difference between
extended and expanded memory? I have 3meg+ of extended, and have decided to
configure it all as expanded, because I don't know of any application which
uses extended. What is the difference, anyway?

tom

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From: knotts@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Tom Knotts)
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