DOS memory management

created by erbo

(idea) by erbo (7.6 y) (print)

Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:54:05

Under MS-DOS, device driver and TSR modules can take up large amounts of conventional memory. A memory manager can move some of these into upper memory blocks or the High Memory Area, freeing up conventional&memory and creating a larger TPA. Memory managers also control access to extended memory, allowing it to be accessed via XMS, or as expanded memory via EMS.

Popular DOS memory mangers include EMM386 and QEMM.

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This program cannot be run in DOS mode	Talking after breathing in helium from balloons	640K Barrier	An e-mail address is NOT a website
QEMM	bisexuality	MS-DOS	The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Transient Program Area	EMS	XMS	little-endian
Memory management	DOS4GW	High Memory Area	We have had enough of your beige
TSR	Peanut butter	Windows ME	upper memory block
VMS	The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover	How can God allow evil to exist?	extended memory

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