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Accuracy

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The history given by this article is clearly inconsistent with what is claimed in EMM386. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.24.30.112 (talk) 20:59, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Memmaker

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Maybe we should mention something about 'memmaker' that shipped with DOS as we take the time to mention QEMM?

Addresses

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All of the addresses in the article seem to be using a 'segment address' which is only half of a 'real-mode address', making the addresses incorrect. It is probably a better idea to just use linear addresses in the article. For example, if I'm not mistaken, the monochrome video memory area is located at $B000:0000 to $B000:7FFF (or somewhere around there) which is actually a linear range of $B0000 to $B7FFF for a total of 32 KB of RAM (instead of the listed B000 to B7FF which is just 2 KB). The address $B000 falls in the Free RAM area of a PC, well below the Upper Memory Area. There are many ways to correctly represent the same segmented address, but all of the UMA addresses should fall between the linear addresses of $A0000 to $FFFFF (or $A000:0000 to $F000:FFFF for just one alternate representation). This range can be correctly converted from hex to a decimal range of 384 KB. 68.166.93.131 19:03, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Less than 1MB RAM

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I think it should be mentioned how less than 1MB RAM would be divided between conventional and upper memory. Josh the Nerd 02:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC) Josh[reply]

Should MOSNUM continue to deprecate IEC prefixes?

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A discussion has been started at WP:MOSNUM concerning the continued deprecation of IEC prefixes. Please comment at the MOSNUM talk page. Thunderbird2 (talk) 19:30, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]