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Intel EMM.SYS Dated June 1990 or Later with MS-DOS

Article ID: 78290

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q78290

SUMMARY

Intel recommends that the EMM.SYS driver for Above Board be dated later than June, 1990 when used to access expanded memory on 8088, 8086 or 80286 machines with MS-DOS 5.0 and later.

MORE INFORMATION

EMM.SYS is Intel's expanded memory manager for the Intel Above Board. The EMM.SYS version must be dated June, 1990 or later. Using versions earlier than June, 1990 with MS-DOS 5.0 and later may result in the inability to access expanded memory.

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EMM.SYS and Intel


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Additional query words: 6.22 5.00 hardware 3rdparty EMS 6.00 6.20

Keywords: KB78290