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In <1992Sep9.201947.24270@en.ecn.purdue.edu> kwan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan) writes:

>In article <1992Sep8.112045.371@topaz.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Peter.Breuer@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Peter Breuer) writes:

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>>I reviewed lastbyte.sys for cbip.a a while back, and can certainly
>>recommend it. I have a 386, and can't speak for 286 owners, but it
>>works for me. It might be worth having a look at UMBDRVR.SYS too,
>>in the same directories on archive sites as LASTBYTE.SYS -- I have just a
>>suspicion that it might work for 286s, and someone will post if I'm
>>wrong there ...
>>
>>peter <ptb@uk.ac.ox.comlab>

>I have a 286 laptop but I can't install The Last Byte on it.  The program
>said I have a VL82C202 chip set and I need to set a motherboard jumper
>to make the extra memory available.  I tried the EXCLUDE= option but to
>no avail.

>The 384K above the conventional 640k on my machine is remapped to the
>top of extended memory (400000h - 460000h).  So I believe a full 4M
>is available, but 3M + 384K is in XMS.  Now I am using HIMEM.SYS in 
>MSDOS 4.01 and no EMS, and I have about 530K conventional memory available.

>Is it possible to load some of my device drivers (eg. mouse) or even
>part of DOS into the 3M + 384K and still be able to use them?  I have
>read something about LOADALL, and that HIMEM.SYS and some other drivers 
>are using it.  So I guess it may not be impossible.  But I am not a
>good enough hacker to do this myself ...

>I am not sure if there is really a jumper on the motherboard of my
>laptop.  Even if there is, I think setting it would cause me to lose
>some of the 4M.

Huh?  what  is  lastbyte.sys and where can I get it, it sounds
very interesting.

thanks
barry


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