(Expanded Memory Manager) Starting with 386-based PCs, an EMM is software that converts extended memory (beyond one megabyte) into EMS memory, the first technique used to increase memory in the PC. In the very first PCs (XTs and ATs), EMS was provided by plugging in EMS boards. See EMS.
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