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HIGH MEMORY AREA

Specialty Definition: HIGH MEMORY AREA

Domain	Definition
Computing	High memory area (HMA) The first 64 kilobytes (minus 16 byte) of the extended memory on an IBM PC. By a strange design glitch the Intel 80x86 processors can actually address 17*64 kbyte minus 16 byte of memory (from 0000:0000 to ffff:ffff) in real mode. In the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 processors, unable to handle more than 1 megabyte of memory, addressing wrapped around, that is, address ffff:0010 was equivalent to 0000:0000. For compatibility reasons, later processors still wrapped around by default, but this feature could be switched off. Special programs called A20 handlers can control the addressing mode dynamically, thereby allowing programs to load themselves into the 1024--1088 kbyte region and run in real mode. From version 5.0 parts of MS-DOS can be loaded into HMA as well freeing up to 46 kbytes of conventional memory. (1995-01-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Crosswords: HIGH MEMORY AREA

Specialty definitions using "HIGH MEMORY AREA": HMA ♦ upper memory area. (references)

Modern Translation: HIGH MEMORY AREA

Language		Translations for "HIGH MEMORY AREA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		ylämuistialue (upper memory area). (various references)

Pig Latin		ighhay emorymay areaay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: HIGH MEMORY AREA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-h-h-i-m-m-o-r-r-y"
	-4 letters: aerogramme, hemorrhage.
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Alternative Orthography: HIGH MEMORY AREA

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 49 47 48 4D 45 4D 4F 52 59 41 52 45 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001001 01000111 01001000 00100000 01001101 01000101 01001101 01001111 01010010 01011001 00100000 01000001 01010010 01000101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#32 &#77 &#69 &#77 &#79 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#65 &#82 &#69 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0049 0047 0048 004D 0045 004D 004F 0052 0059 0041 0052 0045 0041

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

424341422473947495259235523935

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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