Q78290: Intel EMM.SYS Dated June 1990 or Later with MS-DOS

Article: Q78290
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.x,6.0,6.2,6.21,6.22
Operating System(s): 
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Last Modified: 17-DEC-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system versions 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, 6.22 
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SUMMARY
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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
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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.

For more information, query on the following words here in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  EMM.SYS and Intel

The product included here is manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we
make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or
reliability.

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

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Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS621 kbMSDOS622 kbMSDOS620 kbMSDOS600 kbMSDOS500 kbMSDOS500a
Version           : MS-DOS:5.x,6.0,6.2,6.21,6.22

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