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- From: quigley@acs.ucalgary.ca (Martyn Thomas Quigley)
- Subject: Re: Why does HIMEM.SYS not work with some keyboard chips?
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- Message-ID: <92Sep10.033139.16873@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 03:31:39 GMT
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- 70465.203@compuserve.com writes:
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- >>On the 286, the accesses *didn't* wrap, they just went on to the first
- >64k-16 of RAM above the 1 meg mark.
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- Yes, this is what happens, but what I'd like to know is why?
- Someone, somewhere must have decided this--what was the rationale?
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- Martyn
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