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From: s32935k@taltta.hut.fi (Carl Torsten Stenholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Dedicated memory ?
Keywords: extended memory, olivetti
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Date: 12 Jul 89 09:14:29 GMT
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I just purchased an *livetti (I think the number was M380), anyway it has:

	80386, 81 M harddisk, 20 MHz clock, 1 M memory.

The problem is this 1 M memory. The startup system check tells me:

	Main memory     640 K  OK
	Dedicated Mem	384 K  OK

I just cant use these 384K of "dedicated memory". I called the dealer
and he told me "I am sad to inform you, you just cannot use it".
I find this very hard to believe. The memory check reads and writes to
it -- so it must be possible to adress it. If it were not -- how can it
be called memory ?
Anyway -- If it is adressable, then it must be possible to use it as
a virtual disk par example. MS-D*S 3.3 vdisk and cacher both fail to find
this (Using the /E flag).

If anyone has some information on how to adress this memory from any
computer language - or where to get a vdisk program that can access it,
or perhaps even mail one to me, I would be easier. Refelections without
solutions are also welcome.

		Thank you,
			
	But tobacco in a tinwhistle I        |      Ctrl-C.Stenholm
    have never seen before...		 |	s32935k@taltta.hut.fi
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