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to: JAN WAGEMAKERS
from: JERRY COFFIN
date: 1997-11-08 11:31:00
subject: extended memory

On (02 Nov 97) Jan Wagemakers wrote to Jerry Coffin...
 JW> When you have loaded M$ Himem.sys (without emm386) your computer is in
 JW> "Big Real Mode".
No, it's not.  I just did some testing, attempting to do a load from
offset 1ffffh from FS and GS, (with himem.sys, and no other memory
manager loaded) and in neither case did the load succeed.
I'll repeat: there may be _some_ version of himem.sys for which what you
say is true, but it'd definitely _not_ true for any of the three
versions I tested with.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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