22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
4:46 p.m.
On 2/22/2006 at 2:39 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
To be honest, they were right. If you wanted more than
640K on a 286,
it was easier and faster to work with a hardware LIM EMS board than it
was to try to do it yourself via protected mode. (I'm talking about the
period before HIMEM.SYS and the formalized XMS standard, but even then,
XMS copies RAM in and out of the 640K-space, whereas EMS would just
slide the window around which was a hell of a lot faster.)
Yes and no--if you were savvy enough to know how to use LOADALL, things got
somewhat simpler.
Cheers,
Chuck