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Article #683Re: 1024K on an XT?
From: Bing Ho
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:56
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 18:56
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In article <10AUG199221323032@vax2.concordia.ca> charlan@vax2.concordia.ca (M.CHARLAND) writes: >I recently purchased a used XT clone running a NEC V20 chip, Juko 2.2 >bios, and dos 3.3. When I turn the machine on, the memory check counts >up to 1024K, even though DOS, PC Tools, etc. only see 640K. The original XT computers could not access beyond 640k unless a bios upgrade is performed. A veryconvenient program was written by a Cyrus Atkinson (I have the docs if you want), coupled with a new prom (which he will conveniently burn for you), which allowed a XT to use high memory! However, this is only for the ambitious, as it requires you to lobotimize your machine. Considering it is beating a dead horse....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!agate!bho From: bho@ocf.berkeley.edu (Bing Ho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 1024K on an XT? Date: 11 Aug 1992 18:56:36 GMT Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility Lines: 14 Message-ID: <1692h4INNcnt@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <10AUG199221323032@vax2.concordia.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: headcrash.berkeley.edu