Can we trust the "update history"?

Ant wrote:
Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 10/09/2016 05:45 PM, Ant wrote:

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I remember 286s couldn't do EMS, but can do XMS. SOme games required EMS
for extra goodies like voices like in X-Wing!


I never had a 286, but would expect it could do either. The EMS card I
had was on a 8088.

DOS 4 could use EMS, and would run on a 286. If there was a problem, I
expect I would have heard about it.

I did have a 386, and that used software that could use extended memory
as EMS (or XMS).

Oops. Somehow, my post failed. Anyways, remember EMM386 and QEMM386?
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:56:02 -0500, (Ant) wrote:

Anyways, remember EMM386 and QEMM386?


I remember using QEMM, but it was so long ago that I can hardly
remember what it did.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:12:41 -0400, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2016-10-11 18:24, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:56:02 -0500, (Ant) wrote:

Anyways, remember EMM386 and QEMM386?


I remember using QEMM, but it was so long ago that I can hardly
remember what it did.

I can't remember that _at all_.


LOL! We're not very far apart.

On 10/11/2016 05:24 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:56:02 -0500, (Ant) wrote:

Anyways, remember EMM386 and QEMM386?


I remember using QEMM, but it was so long ago that I can hardly
remember what it did.


I used QEMM. Also, a program called "Netroom" that allowed you to put
drivers in upper memory.

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On 11 Oct 2016, Ken Blake wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

I remember using QEMM, but it was so long ago that I can hardly
remember what it did.

We were big users of that where I worked back in the day. We used a DOS
contact manager ("Telemagic") in Windows 3.1, and it was only using
QEMM396 that were were able to load enough stuff in upper memory so
that the whole system was stable.

I think I still have a diskette of that around here somewhere!