XMS memory handling

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Zamaster
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XMS memory handling

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Does anybody know any good sites/books/ect... where I could learn about XMS memory?
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mennonite

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http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/ ... ndez1.html
also i think it was mysticshadows that mentioned the abc code pages... i think that's at http://qbasicnews.com/abc and probably good too.
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XMS must be used from DOS as a sort of RAM disk, you must copy data from XMS to regular memory before being able to access it.

EMS can be peeked and poked directly from a QB program (thru the EMS window), so it's faster in most cases.
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Post by Zamaster »

Oh ok, thats cool! Well then ill change my question, Does anybody know any good -yadda,yadda,yadda...?
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