Message-ID: From: "Da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: Stealth (was EMS, nee BASIC & EMS, nee Optimizing CONFIG.SYS. ..) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:10:00 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Ah! ... I've just remembered ... it's called "Stealth", not "Cloaking"! Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Da Silva, Joe > Sent: Tuesday, 28 November 2000 10:14 > To: 'opendos AT delorie DOT com' > Subject: RE: EMS (was: BASIC & EMS, nee Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...) > > Hmmm ... Perhaps I have my terminology "mixed up"? > > When I referred to "cloaking", I was referring to an EMS-specific > feature of QEMM (IIRC), whereby the EMS page frame was > "on top of" the VGA BIOS address range. The "cloaking" feature > then intercepted the EMS and VGA's API, switching-in whichever > memory (page frame or VGA BIOS) was required ... at least this > is the way I remember this feature being described, in a book > called (IIRC), "DOS beyond 640K". > ----- snip -----