1. Local buses for expanded memory and video boards are the most common. 2. Software expanded memory managers in general offered additional, but closely related functionality. 3. Allocation and use of expanded memory was not transparent to application programs. 4. IBM however created its own expanded memory standard called "'XMA " '. 5. "Expanded memory " is an umbrella term for several incompatible technology variants. 6. Programs had to be written in a specific way to access expanded memory . 7. Eight off-the-shelf PCs with expanded memories took nearly a year to do Paris'daytime maps. 8. Just as the other expanded memory managers, EMM386 uses the processor's virtual 8086 mode. 9. The Expanded Memory Specification or EMS is the specification describing the use of expanded memory . 10. Windows 2.0 also introduced more sophisticated keyboard shortcuts and could make use of expanded memory .