Computer Hardware - Engineering

Q1:

Which DOS driver is used to emulate expanded memory?

A Himem.sys

B EMM386.exe

C Mem386.sys

D Ramdrive.sys

E None of the above

ANS:B - EMM386.exe

Expanded memory manager, Command. The name EMM386 was used for the expanded memory managers of Microsoft's MS-DOS, IBM's PC DOS and Digital Research's DR-DOS, which created expanded memory using extended memory on Intel 80386 CPUs. There also is an EMM386.EXE available in FreeDOS.