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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: BIOS Shadowing / Memory usage???
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Date: 19 Jul 89 13:07:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Jul 19 08:07:00 1989



>On my DELL (220) you can shut off the shadowing of BIOS and use the
>other 384KB as extended memory. RTFM on your setup program and see
>if you can do it too.

The documentation is completely silent on this. There is no real
FM on the setup program. But Dell tech support, which appears to be
quite knowledgeable, says you can't. You CAN turn off the shawdow
RAM, for sure - it is right there in the setup options list, and
if you do it runs slower. But apparently you can't use the freed
384 K. At least nobody has told me how.

Doug McDonald