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In <1992Aug14.020418.1@draco.rutgers.edu> zhhu@draco.rutgers.edu writes:

>I have a 386/25MHz machine on which I was not able to load the MOUSE driver
>into the upper memory area. The Microsoft mouse driver has a size of 55kB
>While the resident part is only 16.7kb. There are 28.4kb free UMB, but I 
>have been not able to load the Mouse driver into that UMB. I tried both 
>Devicehigh or Loadhigh, and even specified the size in Devicehigh command.
>Non of them worked. Would some wise gentlmen advise me what is wrong?

EMM386 is what's wrong. It's not smart enough to understand the resizing
after initialization; I'd strongly suggest that you get QEMM386 or a
similar product. Another very good one is shareware UMBDRVR, but it
doesn't give you EMS. Either way, you'll get pretty certainly some 100K
more UMB space as well. I have both QEMM and UMBDRVR, and it's nice to
have Stacker, mouse & the rest of 'em up high. 623K free conventional
memory is a handy thing to have! (BTW, UMBDRVR doesn't even slow down
your computer, and even QEMM has considerably less overhead than
EMM386.)

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               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
       University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
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