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- The associated file (LIMEMS40.DOC) is a complete transcription of
- the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft (LIM) Expanded Memory Specification (EMS)
- Version 4.0. It can be printed by "COPY LIMEMS40.DOC PRN:"
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- I created this transcription because of the difficulty I originally
- had finding a copy of the document, the number of people who have
- subsequently expressed an interest in having access to a machine-
- readable copy of the specification, and because of the annoying
- number of typographical errors contained in the original document.
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- 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 fixed-spacing, single-fonted, non-graphical ASCII transcrip-
- tion I wanted to produce for general dissemination.
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- Other minor changes were made to correct obvious typographical and
- grammatical errors, or to simply improve the visual aesthetics of
- the presented material.
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- 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 reformatting 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.
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- You can obtain a printed, 3-hole-punched, 5.5 x 8.5" copy of the
- original document directly from Intel by calling their "Informa-
- tion Department" at 1-800-538-3373. It is available free of
- charge and mine arrived in about two weeks.
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- 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).
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- 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 apolo-
- gize and plead simple human frailty.
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- THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEES
- OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND I ASSUME ABSOLUTELY NO
- LIABILITY FOR ITS CONTENT OR SUBSEQUENT USE.
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- Dick Flanagan, W6OLD, Ben Lomond, California October 1987
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