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In article <1992Sep4.200316.18619@otsc.eds.com> snyde_sl@otsc.eds.com (Steve Snyder) writes:
>A colleague has a 286 PC clone with a motherboard made by VLSI.
>He believes the chipset is also made by VLSI, but is not certain.
>He has 4 MB of RAM installed on the motherboard.  
>
>He tried a driver called VEMM.SYS but that did not work.
>I know Quarterdeck has a package called QRAM that works on 286s
>with Chips & Technologies NEAT, LEAP, and SCAT chip sets.  I
>believe Qualitas's 386MAX also works with the C&T chip sets on
>286s.  Anyone know for sure if these or any other expanded memory
>drivers will works on a VLSI 286 motherboard?  Commercial 
>software, shareware, or freeware would all be of interest.
>

There is a lot of cunfusion over the "286 based" products that you have 
referred to above.  They do not require a 286, they DO require that EITHER
a LIM 4.0 hardware compatible EMS board or a shadow RAM chipset.  They use
the capabilities of these two types of hardware (that are capable of making
unused areas between 640 and 1024 mappable to RAM) to load programs high.
They DO NOTR enable EMS support in these systems.  Some shadow RAM chipsets,
like the one in ALR 286's, also support making EMS via the chipset.  This
requires a driver provided from ALR.  You friend should contact VLSI.  If
the chipset (I can't see VLSI using someone else's chipset for their MB's
when they make their own) is capable they could provide a driver.

There are some EMS emulators, like Turbo EMS, but I think he would find
them woefully inadiquate.

Bill	burge@qdeck.com