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EMS need at least 64 Kb. Memory above 640 Kb can be used to more than
just the usual EMS. You can allocate more pages, causing EMS to be faster.
These frames don't have to be contigues, but can be scattered anywhere
between 640 Kb and 1024 Kb. Each page takes 16 Kb and must allocated at a
16 Kb boundary.
Type: LIMSIM MAP at the DOS prompt.
The output may look like this:
+---------------------------------------------+
| Hex Address Start Size Usage |
| 0000-9FFF 0k 640k DOS Memory |
| A000-BFFF 640k 128k Reserved |
| C000-C3FF 768k 16k ROM |
| C400-CBFF 784k 32k Unused |
| CC00-CDFF 816k 8k ROM |
| CE00-DFFF 824k 72k Unused |
| E000-EFFF 896k 64k EMS Page Frame |
| F000-FFFF 960k 64k ROM |
+---------------------------------------------+
Usually the largest segment is used as HIDOS. The largest unused segment here
is CE00-DFFF and can be used as HIDOS. But because HIDOS must be allocated
at 16 Kb boundary you can only use D000-DFFF by adding the following in your
CONFIG.SYS: device=limsim.exe neat hidos=D000-DFFF
Memory at C400-CBFF can be used as extra EMS pages by the following line
in your CONFIG.SYS: device=limsim.exe neat ems=C400-CBFF
By adding the two, HIDOS and EMS, You get:
device=limsim.exe neat hidos=D000-DFFF ems=C400-CBFF
After booting and typing: LIMSIM MAP the output may look like this:
+---------------------------------------------+
| Hex Address Start Size Usage |
| 0000-9FFF 0k 640k DOS Memory |
| A000-BFFF 640k 128k Reserved |
| C000-C3FF 768k 16k ROM |
| C400-CBFF 784k 32k Mappable EMS |
| CC00-CDFF 816k 8k ROM |
| CE00-CFFF 824k 8k Unused |
| D000-DFFF 832k 64k DOS Extension |
| E000-EFFF 896k 64k EMS Page Frame |
| F000-FFFF 960k 64k ROM |
+---------------------------------------------+
If You don't need either HIDOS or extra EMS pages, You can of course avoid it.
Just remeber that their can only be one HIDOS.
The installation is more complicated if your memory is scattered, and you
have to relocate ROM. Read more in BIOS.
See Also:
386
BIOS
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