Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:04:34 -0600 (MDT)
From: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
Subject: [opendos] Re: Why EMM386
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Nissim Chudnoff wrote:
> Just curious, why does EMM386 handle the multitasking, I thought it was
> just a driver to let you use >640k mem?

EMM386 lets you get at the >640K mem by creating a V86 session in which DOS
runs. This lets it, for example, fill in the unused space between 640K and
1M with high memory. Since EMM386 is the part of the system that knows about
V86s, it is also the part of the system which is responsible for multitasking.

Not that I'm an expert or anything; that's just how it looks to me.

Roger Ivie
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