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The associated file (LIMEMS41.DOC) is a complete transcription of
the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft (LIM) Expanded Memory Specification
(EMS) Version 4.0, updated October 1987. It can be printed by
"COPY LIMEMS41.DOC PRN:"
I created this transcription because of the difficulty I origin-
ally had finding a copy of the document, because of the number of
people who have subsequently expressed an interest in having
access to a machine-readable copy of the specification, and,
finally, because of the annoying number of typographical errors
contained in the original and updated documents.
This transcription is not an exact letter-for-letter duplicate of
the original document. Some minor changes were necessitated by
the simple fact that the document's proportionally-spaced, multi-
fonted typography and line drawings did not lend themselves to
the generic fixed-spacing, single-fonted, non-graphical ASCII
transcription I wanted to produce for general dissemination.
Other minor changes were made to correct obvious typographical
and grammatical errors, or to simply improve the visual aes-
thetics of the presented material.
In one area, however, I simply trashed their original material
and substituted my own. This area is the Index. The original
document contains an Index that is little more than a reformatt-
ing of the Table of Contents. As anyone who has ever indexed a
large document knows, it is very difficult to produce an Index
that is both complete AND easy to use. I didn't have time to
produce one that was both, so I aimed for the former. In fact,
the Index I have provided is more of an alphabetical listing of
key words and phrases and the pages where they are referenced,
than it is a more typical Index with its multi-level headings and
subheadings.
You should be able obtain a printed, 3-hole-punched, 5.5 x 8.5"
copy of the original (and uncorrected) document directly from
Intel by calling their "Information Department" at 1-800-538-3373
and asking for a copy of the "LIM EMS 4.0 Developer's Kit." It
is available free of charge and mine arrived in about two weeks.
(European availability, however, is reported to be from poor to
non-existent.)
It is my intent to provide this transcription as a public
service. I am, therefore, releasing it into the public domain.
The original document has also been released into the public
domain by Lotus, Intel, and Microsoft, though it remains their
copyrighted property (I'm not quite sure how they manage to do
that).
I have tried as best I can to provide an accurate and corrected
transcription of the original document. It is inevitable,
however, that some typographical errors have slipped through in
spite of my hours of bleary-eyed proof reading. For these errors
I apologize and plead simple human frailty.
THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEES
OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND I ASSUME ABSOLUTELY NO
LIABILITY FOR ITS ACCURACY, CONTENT, OR SUBSEQUENT USE.
Dick Flanagan, W6OLD, Ben Lomond, California November 1987