In DOS memory management, the upper memory area (UMA) is the memory between the addresses of 640 KB and 1024 KB (0xA0000–0xFFFFF) in an IBM PC or compatible...
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needed][citation needed] DOS memory management Conventional memory Expanded memory (EMS) High memory area (HMA) Upper memory area (UMA) Global EMM Import Specification...
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region in the upper 384 KiB (upper memory area) divided into four 16 KiB pages, which could be used to map portions of the expanded memory. In turn, EMS...
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area. The remaining 384 KB beyond the conventional memory area, called the upper memory area (UMA), was reserved for system use and optional devices. UMA...
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physical memory in a machine could be organized as a combination of base or conventional memory (including lower memory), upper memory, high memory (not the...
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region between 640 and 1024 KB (64k segments 10 through 16) for the Upper Memory Area. This choice initially made little impact, but it eventually limited...
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In DOS memory management, the high memory area (HMA) is the RAM area consisting of the first 65520 bytes above the one megabyte in an IBM AT or compatible...
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conventional memory (the first 640 kilobytes of memory which was critical to DOS) by running in upper memory area (the 384 kilobytes of memory located beyond...
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class LH (DOS command), a DOS command that loads a program into the upper memory area Luteinizing hormone, a hormone synthesized and secreted by gonadotropes...
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LOADHIGH (category DOS memory management)
COMMAND.COM that is used to load a program into the upper memory area (UMA) instead of conventional memory. The command was introduced with MS-DOS 5.0 / PC DOS...
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closed lower, upper, and video memory access, to block the lower 64K of memory. A command that loads a program into the upper memory area. The command...
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dedicated software support (i.e. only accessible via a RAM window in the Upper Memory Area); this was relatively rarely equipped and utilized on the original...
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"upper memory area" (the part of the x86 real-mode address space at and above address 0xA0000) and runs each ROM found, in order. To discover memory-mapped...
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ULA—Uncommitted Logic Array ULSI—Ultra Large Scale Integration UMA—Upper Memory Area UMB—Upper Memory Block UML—Unified Modeling Language UML—User-Mode Linux UMPC—Ultra-Mobile...
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to areas of the brain that are associated with memory storage, such as the hippocampus. Finally, the retrieval of information from long-term memory can...
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DOS (section Memory management)
from extended memory, access to the 65,520-byte high memory area directly above the first megabyte of memory and the upper memory block area. Generally XMS...
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the northern sky Uniform memory access, a shared memory architecture in parallel computers Upper memory area, in DOS memory management User-Managed Access...
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EMM386 (category DOS memory management)
memory on Intel 80386 CPUs. There also is an EMM386.EXE available in FreeDOS. EMM386.EXE can map memory into unused blocks in the upper memory area (UMA)...
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driver and load portions of the operating system into the upper memory area and high memory area. Supports up to four DOS primary partitions, however FDISK...
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RAM limit (category Computer memory)
operating system may only be designed to allocate a certain amount of memory, with upper address bits reserved to indicate designations such as I/O or supervisor...
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in addition to its supporting the use of the Upper Memory Area – also permitted the use of Extended Memory for some of its buffers (reducing the driver's...
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QEMM (redirect from Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager)
QEMM provides access to the Upper Memory Area (UMA) and memory through the Expanded Memory Specification (EMS), Extended Memory Specification (XMS), Virtual...
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HIMEM.SYS (category DOS memory management)
version 3.0. Conventional memory Extended memory High memory area Upper memory area EMM386 Memory management LOADALL "FreeDOS command: Himemx". "EMM386...
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CEMM (category Expanded memory managers)
Virtual 8086 mode Conventional memory Extended memory (XMS) Expanded memory (EMS) High Memory Area (HMA) Upper Memory Area (UMA) "Redirecting…". "Original...
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Minor Outlying Islands (postal symbol; ISO 3166 digram) UMA – (i) Upper Memory Area UMB – (i) University of Maryland, Baltimore UMBC – (i) University...
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silicon area and cost. Typically, SRAM is used for the cache and internal registers of a CPU while DRAM is used for a computer's main memory. Semiconductor...
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Bank switching (category Computer memory)
by letting it appear piecewise in a 64 KB "window" located in the Upper Memory Area. The 64 KB is divided into four 16 KB "pages" which can each be independently...
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of conventional memory by utilizing the memory virtualization features of i386 to remap the Upper memory area into the High memory area in addition to...
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Locality of reference (redirect from Memory locality)
performance if it uses memory while it is cached in the upper levels of the memory hierarchy and avoids bringing other data into the upper levels of the hierarchy...
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p. 29. Riley, Wallace B. (1973-08-02). "Special report: Semiconductor memories are taking over data-storage applications". Electronics. p. 75. Manes &...
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