Little Board™/486e Technical Manual
Table
Memory Address | Function |
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0100000h – 3FFFFFFh | Extended memory |
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00F0000h - 00FFFFFh | 64K ROM BIOS |
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00D0000h - 00EFFFFh | |
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00CC000h – 00CFFFFh | Onboard BIOS Expansion Flash device for Ethernet |
| boot PROM code |
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00C0000h - 00CBFFFh | Video BIOS for onboard flat panel video controller |
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00A0000h - 00BFFFFh | Normally contains video RAM, as follows: |
| CGA Video: |
| Monochrome: |
| EGA and VGA video: |
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000000h - 09FFFFh | Onboard DRAM |
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Expanded Memory and Extended Memory
Extended memory is a contiguous linear block of memory above 1M byte. Some programs require that memory be available as expanded or EMS memory, which makes memory available as pages rather than as a contiguous block. The procedure for accessing expanded memory is defined in the EMS LIM 4.0 specification.
Expanded memory can be converted into EMS memory by using the EMS emulation utilities in DOS. Current versions of DOS provide EMS emulation utilities, such as EMM386, that conform to the LIM 4.0 specification. Refer to the DOS technical documentation for instructions for using the EMS emulation utility.