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Article #42951Re: making disk act like memory
From: Rick Wagner
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 19:57
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 19:57
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In article <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) writes: >I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use >the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded >or extended). > >Does anyone know that names of either commercial software or >PD that will accomplish this? > >Thanks, >butlert@mcmaster.ca I have heard of a program called "Above Disk". There are probably others. It emulates EMS on a disk. It is slow compared to real EMS, but it allows you to do things in programs (Lotus 1-2-3) which will overflow to EMS, but not to disk. I haven't used it my self, but I hear that it works. --rick P.S. I just had a thought: try using Above Disk to set up EMS to use for a disk cache ;). -- =============================================================================== Rick Wagner Network Research Corp. rick@nrc.com 2380 North Rose Ave. (805) 485-2700 FAX: (805) 485-8204 Oxnard, CA 93030 Don't hate yourself in the morning; sleep til noon.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!srhqla!nrcvax!rick From: rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: making disk act like memory Message-ID: <479@nrcvax.NRC.COM> Date: 23 Feb 90 19:57:24 GMT References: <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Reply-To: rick@nrcvax.UUCP (Rick Wagner) Organization: Network Research Corp., Oxnard CA Lines: 30