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Last modified: Thursday, November 08, 2001
Stands for
E
x
tended
M
emory
S
pecification
, a
procedure
developed jointly by AST Research,
Intel Corporation
, Lotus Development, and
Microsoft Corporation
for using
extended memory
and
DOS's
high memory area
, a 64K block just above 1MB.
Related Categories
DOS
Memory
Related Terms
DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI)
expanded memory
extended memory
high memory area
himem.sys
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