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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Why does HIMEM.SYS not work with some keyboard chips?
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- References: <1992Sep4.153652.16199@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Sep9.044414.29506@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1992Sep10.033029.17342@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:49:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.033029.17342@wam.umd.edu> mts@wam.umd.edu () writes:
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- > As I wrote to the original poster, there is an article about this
- >in either Sept's issue of Compute or Byte. They say that it has something
- >to do with the A20 gate being handled by the keyboard BIOS. Apparently
- >not all software is gone, because they reported having problems with
- >Word Perfect. It was not a total system lockup, but rather that some
- >characters were not appearing as they had been typed. I believe that
- ><shift>s were being added to their keystrokes to be exact. Supposedly
- >the "machine:" line fixed the problem.
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- Oh????
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- I've seen this on a Leading Edge Model D - a 8088 machine, no
- A20, no Himem. Fixed it by putting in a different BIOS chip.
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