W8SDZ@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (12/06/88)
The recently uploaded HIMEM.ARC has been deleted as it was an older version of the XMS driver. It has been replaced with: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL> XMS20.ARC BINARY 131831 05B3H As described in issue V7, #57 of the Info-IBMPC Digest, this is the "eXtended Memory Specification (XMS)", version 2.0, dated 7/19/88. It also includes an implementation of an eXtended Memory Manager (XMM), HIMEM.SYS version 2.04, dated 8/17/88. This HIMEM.SYS is the same as the one being distributed with versions of MS-DOS and Windows. This is copyright (c) 1988, Microsoft Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, Intel Corporation, and AST Research, Inc. Although it has been released into the public domain and is not confidential or proprietary, the specification is still the copyright and property of Microsoft Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, Intel Corporation, and AST Research, Inc. For general information, see the file README.TXT. For user information on HIMEM.SYS, see the file SPEC\HIMEM.TXT. For programmer information about the XMS interface, see the file SPEC\XMS.TXT. Thanks to Lee Fisher from Microsoft Corporation for making the file available. --Keith