1. It runs in real mode but can make use of the high memory area . 2. A part of memory beyond the first megabyte can be accessed in real mode-- High Memory Area . 3. But that afternoon was one better treated with silence and locked in the high memory area of the mind. 4. The 80286 also introduced the high memory area , which raises the address limit in real mode by 65520 bytes. 5. The phrase is also sometimes used as shorthand for the High Memory Area , which is a different concept entirely. 6. Extended memory is not accessible in real mode ( except for a small portion called the high memory area ). 7. In MS-DOS, high memory area managers, such as HIMEM . SYS has the " extra task " of managing A20. 8. The total operating system footprint was around 20 KB, most of DOS residing in the high memory area ( HMA ). 9. Like prior versions of Windows, Windows / 286 2.1 used the real-mode memory model, but was the first version to support the High Memory Area . 10. In January 1992, NETROOM v2.1 added a " Quantum " memory management feature which could relocate the system and video BIOS into the High Memory Area .