Extended Memory - Epson ExpressStation User Manual

EGA
Enhanced Graphics Adapter. A type of display adapter card
that allows you to display high-resolution graphics on a
compatible monitor. It can display up to 43 lines of text with 80
characters on each line, or it can display monochrome or
16-color graphics at resolutions up to 640 x 350.
ElSA
Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A bus standard for
IBM compatible computers that extends the ISA bus
architecture to 32 bits and allows more than one computer to
share the bus easily.
Expanded memory
Memory that specially written MS-DOS application programs
can use with an Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) device
driver.

Extended Memory

Memory above 1MB that is accessed by the protected mode of
the microprocessor and is available to some application
programs and operating systems.
Fast-page mode
A dynamic memory mode that allows successive addresses to
access the same DRAM page by changing the column addresses.
FLASH memory
Non-volatile, rewritable, random access memory. Your
computer's BIOS and EISA configuration information is stored
in a FLASH memory device.
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