In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional...
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QEMM (redirect from Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager)
Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager (QEMM) is a memory manager produced by Quarterdeck Office Systems in the late 1980s through the late 1990s. It was...
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under DOS. Extended memory should not be confused with expanded memory (EMS), an earlier method for expanding the IBM PC's memory capacity beyond 640...
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The Memory Stick is a removable flash memory card format, originally launched by Sony in late 1998. In addition to the original Memory Stick, this family...
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CEMM (category Expanded memory managers)
CEMM, for Compaq Expanded Memory Manager was the first so-called PC "memory manager" for Intel 80386 CPUs, able to provide expanded memory (EMS) emulation...
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expanded memory can be emulated using extended memory so this method of providing upper memory blocks is usually provided by the expanded memory manager...
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EMM386 (category Expanded memory managers)
the expanded memory manager of Microsoft's MS-DOS, IBM's PC DOS, Digital Research's DR-DOS, and Datalight's ROM-DOS which is used to create expanded memory...
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program) the expanded memory board to map that part of memory into the processor's address space. Although applications could use expanded memory with relative...
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make maximum use of extended memory on Intel 80386 processors, by transforming it into expanded memory and upper memory blocks (UMBs) accessible to DESQview...
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Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...
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extended memory area; an addressable region of memory under a DOS Extender Expanded Memory Adapter, an IBM standard for XT-era expanded memory XMA, part...
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In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This...
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Memory segmentation is an operating system memory management technique of dividing a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer...
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order it was written. Drum memory could be expanded at relatively low cost but efficient retrieval of memory items requires knowledge of the physical layout...
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1 MiB (1024 KiB) of physical memory (and memory-mapped i/o). (Optional expanded memory hardware can add bank-switched memory under software control.) Later...
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multitask several DOS programs and the paged memory model to emulate expanded memory using available extended memory. Windows/286, in spite of its name, runs...
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in Dublin, Ireland. Their most famous products were the Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, DESQview, CleanSweep, DESQview/X, Quarterdeck Mosaic, Manifest...
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Windows 3.0 (section Memory modes)
although it can still use expanded memory, which is memory that is added by installing expanded memory boards or memory managers. However, it also provides...
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Officially Endorse Microsoft's Extended Memory Spec, InfoWorld, October 3, 1988 Tutor: Expanded vs. extended memory, PC Magazine, December 26, 1989, p. 309–10...
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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...
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(block-oriented disk I/O bypassing the file system) em (expanded memory, used for all kinds of memory beyond the 6502's 64K barrier, similar EMS) joystick...
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Terminate-and-stay-resident program (redirect from Memory resident)
data above the first 1 MB of memory and using the code below 640 KB to access the extended memory using expanded memory (EMS) by making use of overlay...
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variant further, for a total of 640 KB conventional memory, and possibly several megabytes of expanded memory beyond that, though on PC/XT-class machines, the...
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revert to 256 KB RAM on the system board but were also shipped with an Expanded Memory Adapter (XMA) with 1 MB RAM standard. Optionally these models (released...
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increase the speed of data transfer (i.e. bandwidth). Local buses for expanded memory and video boards are the most common. VESA Local Bus and Processor...
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Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time...
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DOS (section Memory management)
to allow access to additional memory. The first was the Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) was designed to allow memory on an add-on card to be accessed...
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AST-Quadram-Ashton-Tate, an alliance responsible for the definition of the Enhanced Expanded Memory Specification (EEMS) Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, an exam...
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architecture ECC memory Expanded memory Extended memory Flat memory model Harvard architecture High memory area (HMA) Lernmatrix Memory hierarchy Memory level parallelism...
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IBM PC compatible (section Expandability)
only had a 20-bit memory addressing space. To expand PCs beyond one megabyte, Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft jointly created expanded memory (EMS), a bank-switching...
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