Epson 286 PLUS User Manual

At high speed, it can access memory faster, so your programs

work faster. 

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should use high speed for everything you do

unless you are using an application program that requires the
slower speed. Some programs (especially older ones) have

specific timing requirements when accessing diskettes. Check

your application program manual.

You can also set the processor to change speed automatically.
This enables the computer to switch to low speed whenever it

needs to access a diskette drive but run at high speed for all
other operations.

Select 

High

speed for 12 MHz, 

Low speed 

for 6 MH

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,

or 

Auto speed 

to have the computer switch to low speed

automatically when necessary.

You may not want to use &automatic setting for certain

copy-protected programs. See “changing the Processor

Speed” in Chapter 4 for more information.

In addition to selecting the default operating speed through
SETUP, you can change the speed temporarily by giving a
keyboard command or by running the ESPEED program. See
“Changing the Processor Speed” in Chapter 4 for more

information.

This option lets you specify how much of your total extended
memory you want the computer to use as expanded memory.

Expanded memory can be used by application programs
conforming to the Lotus®/Intel®/Microsoft® Expanded

Memory Specification (LIM EMS), such as Windows/286.
The Equity 286 PLUS is compatible with version 4.0 of the

LIM EMS.

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