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posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 04.02.2013, 09:04

> EMS 3.2 must need a 64 kb page frame, but I guess EMS 4.0 doesn't?? So
> technically you can still use EMS (barely) in smaller chunks (16 kb?),
> right??

In EMS 4.0, you can always use function 57h (move memory); this function neither needs a page frame nor any mappable pages at all, and size isn't really restricted ( it must be <= 1 MB, IIRC ). It's actually almost identical to the XMS block move function.

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Complete thread:

• NOEMS - georgpotthast, 02.02.2013, 07:53 (Users)
  • NOEMS - Arjay, 02.02.2013, 11:13
  • NOEMS - Japheth, 02.02.2013, 12:25
    • NOEMS - Arjay, 02.02.2013, 13:00
      • NOEMS - Rugxulo, 02.02.2013, 17:03
      • NOEMS - Arjay, 09.02.2013, 22:23
  • NOEMS - tom, 02.02.2013, 17:27
  • NOEMS - georgpotthast, 03.02.2013, 19:48
    • NOEMS - Rugxulo, 03.02.2013, 23:00
      • NOEMS - Japheth, 04.02.2013, 09:04
    • NOEMS - tlink - Arjay, 10.02.2013, 14:05
      • NOEMS - tlink - georgpotthast, 12.02.2013, 21:50
  • JEMM386 noems - georgpotthast, 12.02.2013, 21:47
    • JEMM386 noems - RayeR, 13.02.2013, 00:23
    • JEMM386 noems - Japheth, 13.02.2013, 04:15
    • JEMM386 noems - Laaca, 13.02.2013, 07:20