In DOS memory management, conventional memory, also called base memory, is the first 640 kilobytes of the memory on IBM PC or compatible systems. It is...

interface code left in conventional memory by self-relocating resident drivers which move most of themselves into upper memory, the high memory area, expanded...

applications access to more than 640 kibibytes (640*1024 bytes) (KiB) of "conventional memory". The 640 KiB limit was specific to the IBM PC and close compatibles;...

loads the fundamental memory managers into conventional memory, and thereafter everything else into the UMA. Conventional memory glutton programs such...

DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional memory...

stable with more memory modules than it would have otherwise. When conventional memory is compared with registered memory, conventional memory is usually referred...

system kernel, which takes care of memory management and copying memory between conventional and extended memory, by temporarily switching the processor...

region of memory was known as the High Memory Area (HMA), and later versions of DOS could use it to increase the available "conventional" memory (i.e. within...

introduction of the Windows Registry and add-ons, and it could utilize more memory than its predecessors. Microsoft also released special versions of Windows...

a chunk of memory at the start of the memory map in order for programs to load above this barrier (but with less usable conventional memory then). By default...

Unreal mode Protected mode Conventional memory Extended memory (XMS) Expanded memory (EMS) High Memory Area (HMA) Upper Memory Block (UMB) DOS Protected...

allows DOS programs to eliminate the 640 KB conventional memory limit by addressing up to 64 MB of extended memory on Intel 80386 and above machines. Functioning...

of a coil spring. Parts made of shape-memory alloys can be lightweight, solid-state alternatives to conventional actuators such as hydraulic, pneumatic...

Cache-only memory architecture (COMA) Cache memory Conventional memory Deterministic memory Distributed memory Distributed shared memory (DSM) Dual-channel...

out of conventional memory while doing so, preventing the program from launching. Windows 3.x allocated fixed segments in conventional memory first. Since...

COM that is used to load a program into the upper memory area (UMA) instead of conventional memory. The command was introduced with MS-DOS 5.0 / PC DOS...

study shows that a conventional memory interleaving method would propagate address-mapping conflicts at a cache level to the memory address space, causing...

extended memory and freeing up conventional memory, DPMS not only allows very large drivers to load and take advantage of the available memory, but also...

their /MH option), thereby freeing up even more conventional memory and upper memory for conventional DOS software to work with. TASKMAX seems to have...

in conventional memory (the first 640 kilobytes of memory which was critical to DOS) by running in upper memory area (the 384 kilobytes of memory located...

versions are limited to approximately 300 kB, depending on how much conventional memory is free. The Editor can edit files that are up to 65,279 lines and...

load the DOS kernel code into the High Memory Area (HMA) to increase the amount of available conventional memory by specifying DOS=HIGH in CONFIG.SYS....

similar to the memory limits of the early 8088 IBM PC memory architecture (see Conventional memory). Similar situations have often arisen in the history...

memory footprint of the IPX driver, which was vital for DOS and Windows up to Windows 95 due to the limited size at that time of conventional memory....

programs running in memory, at the cost of performance hit. However, all the running programs had to fit into conventional memory area, as there was no...

bitwise operations on two rows) to conventional memory modules (e.g., DIMM modules); or Adding processing capability to memory controllers so that the data...

Random-access memory (RAM; /ræm/) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data...

card in DOS. This application is not a TSR (it does not take up conventional memory). S-MPU-IIAT (Super MPU II): for the IBM or compatible Plug and Play...

advantage of a charge trapping layer to replace the conventional floating gate used in conventional flash memory designs. In 2000, an Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)...

memory. Since some PCs (notably Compaqs) did not place extended memory (XMS) at the 1MB line and instead left a hole between the end of conventional memory...