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Ms-dos – Epson EQUITY 3865X/20 PLUS User Manual

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Expanded memory

Memory that specially written

MS-DOS

application programs

can use with an Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) device

driver such as EMM386.SYS.

Extended Memory

Memory above 1MB that is accessed by the protected mode of
the 80386SX microprocessor and is available to some

application programs and operating systems.

Extension

A suffix of up to three characters that you can add to a filename

to better identify it.

File

A group of related pieces of information called records, or

entries, stored together on a disk. Text files consist of words and

sentences. Program files consist of codes and are used by
computers to interpret and carry out instructions.

Filename

A name up to eight characters long that MS-DOS uses to

identify a file.

Fixed disk

See Hard

disk.

Format

To prepare a new disk (or an old one you want to reuse) so that

it can store information. Formatting divides a disk into tracks

and sectors and creates addressable locations on it.

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