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- The associated file (LIMEMS41.DOC) is a complete transcription of
- the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft (LIM) Expanded Memory Specification
- (EMS) Version 4.0, updated October 1987. It can be printed by
- "COPY LIMEMS41.DOC PRN:"
-
- I created this transcription because of the difficulty I origin-
- ally had finding a copy of the document, because of the number of
- people who have subsequently expressed an interest in having
- access to a machine-readable copy of the specification, and,
- finally, because of the annoying number of typographical errors
- contained in the original and updated documents.
-
- This transcription is not an exact letter-for-letter duplicate of
- the original document. Some minor changes were necessitated by
- the simple fact that the document's proportionally-spaced, multi-
- fonted typography and line drawings did not lend themselves to
- the generic fixed-spacing, single-fonted, non-graphical ASCII
- transcription I wanted to produce for general dissemination.
-
- Other minor changes were made to correct obvious typographical
- and grammatical errors, or to simply improve the visual aes-
- thetics of the presented material.
-
- In one area, however, I simply trashed their original material
- and substituted my own. This area is the Index. The original
- document contains an Index that is little more than a reformatt-
- ing of the Table of Contents. As anyone who has ever indexed a
- large document knows, it is very difficult to produce an Index
- that is both complete AND easy to use. I didn't have time to
- produce one that was both, so I aimed for the former. In fact,
- the Index I have provided is more of an alphabetical listing of
- key words and phrases and the pages where they are referenced,
- than it is a more typical Index with its multi-level headings and
- subheadings.
-
- You should be able obtain a printed, 3-hole-punched, 5.5 x 8.5"
- copy of the original (and uncorrected) document directly from
- Intel by calling their "Information Department" at 1-800-538-3373
- and asking for a copy of the "LIM EMS 4.0 Developer's Kit." It
- is available free of charge and mine arrived in about two weeks.
- (European availability, however, is reported to be from poor to
- non-existent.)
-
- It is my intent to provide this transcription as a public
- service. I am, therefore, releasing it into the public domain.
- The original document has also been released into the public
- domain by Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft, though it remains their
- copyrighted property (I'm not quite sure how they manage to do
- that).
-
- I have tried as best I can to provide an accurate and corrected
- transcription of the original document. It is inevitable,
- however, that some typographical errors have slipped through in
- spite of my hours of bleary-eyed proof reading. For these errors
- I apologize and plead simple human frailty.
-
- THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEES
- OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND I ASSUME ABSOLUTELY NO
- LIABILITY FOR ITS ACCURACY, CONTENT, OR SUBSEQUENT USE.
-
- Dick Flanagan, W6OLD, Ben Lomond, California November 1987
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