Extended System Configuration Data
<operating system> (ESCD) An area of memory, not exceeding 32 kilobytes
in size, used by MS-DOS(?) as NVRAM for PNP BIOS and PNP OS. It must be
writeable at run time.
Intel's ICU also uses ESCD to store information for PNP ISA cards and legacy ISA
cards.
(1999-11-22)
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