The associated file (LIMEMS40.DOC) is a complete transcription of
          the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft (LIM) Expanded Memory Specification (EMS)
          Version 4.0.  It can be printed by "COPY LIMEMS40.DOC PRN:"

          I created this transcription because of the difficulty I originally
          had finding a copy of the document, the number of people who have
          subsequently expressed an interest in having access to a machine-
          readable copy of the specification, and because of the annoying
          number of typographical errors contained in the original document.

          This transcription is not an exact letter-for-letter duplicate of
          the original document.  Some minor changes were necessitated by
          the simple fact that the document's proportionally-spaced, multi-
          fonted typography and line drawings did not lend themselves to
          the fixed-spacing, single-fonted, non-graphical ASCII transcrip-
          tion I wanted to produce for general dissemination.

          Other minor changes were made to correct obvious typographical and
          grammatical errors, or to simply improve the visual aesthetics of
          the presented material.

          In one area, however, I simply trashed their original material and
          substituted my own.  This area is the Index.  The original document
          contains an Index that is little more than a reformatting of the
          Table of Contents.  As anyone who has ever indexed a large document
          knows, it is very difficult to produce an Index that is both
          complete AND easy to use.  I didn't have time to produce one that
          was both, so I aimed for the former.  In fact, the Index I have
          provided is more of an alphabetical listing of key words and
          phrases and the pages where they are referenced, than it is a more
          typical Index with its multi-level headings and subheadings.

          You can obtain a printed, 3-hole-punched, 5.5 x 8.5" copy of the
          original document directly from Intel by calling their "Informa-
          tion Department" at 1-800-538-3373.  It is available free of
          charge and mine arrived in about two weeks.

          It is my intent to provide this transcription as a public service. 
          I am, therefore, releasing it into the public domain.  The original
          document has also been released into the public domain by Lotus,
          Intel, and Microsoft, though it remains their copyrighted property
          (I'm not quite sure how they manage to do that).

          I have tried as best I can to provide an accurate and corrected
          transcription of the original document.  It is inevitable, however,
          that some typographical errors have slipped through in spite of
          my hours of bleary-eyed proof reading.  For these errors I apolo-
          gize and plead simple human frailty.

               THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEES
               OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND I ASSUME ABSOLUTELY NO
               LIABILITY FOR ITS CONTENT OR SUBSEQUENT USE.

          Dick Flanagan, W6OLD, Ben Lomond, California         October 1987