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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: BASIC & EMS (was: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 04:08:35 -0700
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Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

No Cooment.

Read some other posts about virtual memory.

Pat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert W Moss" <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: BASIC & EMS (was: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...)


> Virtual memory is not "memory".  It is the swap space on the 
> hard drive which is used to opn up space in real memory by 
> copying frequently used information out to the hard disk 
> where the program can call it up when needed.  
> It is slow because it is limited to the access speed of the hard drive.
> 
> BOB 'DOMAN" MOSS 'Chocolate is a vitamin, but also a vegetable, 
>                                           since it comes from a bean. 
> Everyone should 
>                                           eat their veggies.) 
> 
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:31:06 -0700 "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
> writes:
> > 
> > That is what I have been trying to say, it is extended memory and 
> > yes it is
> > real physical memory, it is not virtual memory. You can touch the 
> > chips,
> > feel them get warm and use that memory. XMS itself is a memory 
> > manager,
> > however the memory used through XMS is refered to as XMS memory.
> > Pat
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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