Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:16:15 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Lance W. Patterson" <lancep AT bcm DOT tmc DOT edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:38:59 -0500
> 
> Microsoft's "EMM386.EXE" is used primarily for two things.
> 
> 1.  Freeing up "real mode" memory.
> 2.  Providing EMS memory(a joke), if needed.

Before you dismiss EMS as ``a joke'', let me remind you that EMS is
required to have VCPI, which is not a joke at all in the context of
DJGPP.  See section 3.9 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more details about
this.