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XMS Last modified: Thursday, November 08, 2001
Stands for Extended Memory Specification, a procedure developed jointly by AST Research, Intel Corporation, Lotus Development, and Microsoft Corporation for using extended memory and DOS's high memory area, a 64K block just above 1MB.
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