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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:21:44 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 23 Apr 97 at 8:16) -= ArkanoiD =- said:

> > >> (if possible), then Bank Switch in a driver, call it's "init" and if it
> > >> can
> > return:
> > >
> > >EMS? Oh please! If it HAS to be real mode, let it be XMS!
> > >
> >
> > either way... I just thought it was easy to let EMS swap a bank in
> > anywhere ;)
> >
> 
>  Most of 286 computers are unable to handle EMS at all.
Hmm... EMS was introduced in the XT machines - it was memory supplied on 
separate add-on extension cards and then driven by a software. The EMS 
present on i386+ machines is just an emulation of the hardware. 286 machines 
allow HMA where the EMS page may be kept.
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