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Article #43119Re: 1 Megabytes on motherboard -- Can we use it all???
From: Stephen M. Dunn
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 02:05
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 02:05
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In article <432@adiron.UUCP> frank@adiron.UUCP (Corradino) writes:
$When any unit is powered up, the RAM test counts to 1024 kbytes of memory.
$Visual inspection reveals that all RAM is installed on the motherboard (no
$memory boards are installed).
$Questions:
$1) Is the memory beyond 640 k extended memory?
Yes.
$2) We want to use this memory for Ventura 2.0 which supports expanded memory.
$ Will any of the following SIMTEL utilities allow this?
$ <MSDOS.SYSUTL>EMS40.ARC (Driver: use extended memory as EMS 4.0 memory)
This is the only one I'm familiar with; it's from PC Magazine. It will
do what you need, but a few warnings:
- it's slow
- it eats up about 70K of your main memory (64K for the page frame and
the rest for the driver)
- it doesn't work with all combinations of software
It's worth giving a shot ... just don't do anything terribly important
until you're sure it's working in your environment.
--
Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 1 Megabytes on motherboard -- Can we use it all??? Keywords: Use extended memory as expanded? Message-ID: <25E9E054.20691@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 27 Feb 90 02:05:08 GMT References: <432@adiron.UUCP> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Distribution: usa Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 28