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XMS memory handling
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:31 pm
by Zamaster
Does anybody know any good sites/books/ect... where I could learn about XMS memory?
have you been here?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:11 am
by mennonite
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:44 am
by Antoni
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.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:25 pm
by Zamaster
Oh ok, thats cool! Well then ill change my question, Does anybody know any good -yadda,yadda,yadda...?