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Article #7651ramdisks in extended memory, xms, and ems
From: David J. Birnbaum
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 17:53
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 17:53
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Is there any way to decide among setting up ramdisks in plain
old extended memory, xms extended memory, or ems?
I have a 286 with 1M on the system board and 4M on a LIM 4.0
expansion board. The memory on the expansion board can be con-
figured as any combination of extended and expanded. I cur-
rently have it divided as 2M of each, with the expanded used by
various applications and the extended all configured as a ramdisk
(using the ramdrive.sys driver that came with my MS-DOS 3.3). I
do not use any applications that require xms.
My ramdisk is in regular extended memory largely through inertia;
the driver came with MS-DOS and I never bothered to change when the
xms standard appeared or when I got my expansion board. I have xms
and expanded memory ramdisk programs; is there any reason to use any
of these instead of my old ramdrive.sys?
Thanks for any suggestions,
--David
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!wjh12!djb From: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: ramdisks in extended memory, xms, and ems Message-ID: <436@wjh12.harvard.edu> Date: 27 Nov 89 17:53:34 GMT Reply-To: djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum) Distribution: na Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Lines: 26