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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Why does HIMEM.SYS not work with some keyboard chips?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.164145.14393@rei.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:41:45 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.023741.3497@leela.cs.orst.edu> <1992Sep4.153652.16199@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Sep9.044414.29506@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
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- >Apparently so major applications programs *depended* on the wraparound.
-
- Can anyone give me a logical, sensible reason why any software would
- require that the start of memory (0000) be referenceable from the last
- segment in memory (FFFF)? It seems to me that if you want to look at
- the start of memory, you start by loading segment 0000, not FFFF! Who
- would program in such a bizarre manner?
-
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- #ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox fuzzy@netcom.com
- #define TRUE 0 | a.k.a. David DeSimone an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
- #define FALSE 1 |
- #endif | How's my posting? Call 1-800-ALT-FLAME
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