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From: jimb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BIOS Shadowing / Memory usage???
Message-ID: <6687@athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 21:36:45 GMT
References: <6541@athertn.Atherton.COM> <45900251@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1491@lzfme.att.com>
Reply-To: jimb@athertn.UUCP (Jim Burke)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1491@lzfme.att.com> jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:

>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.

>On the AMI bias, you're probably out of luck.

Yep, I've verified that I am s**t out of luck with the AMI bios.  Even
if I disable shadowing, which I can, I still can't get back the 384k for
extended memory or vdisk or whatever.  It's just gone.  But, I do have
1Mb of memory chips so technically, I have to admit it is a 1Mb machine.
I was not thorough enough to ask whether I could actually USE 1Mb before
I bought the machine - silly me, what a ridiculous assumption.
(not that it's that big a deal)  The dealer did offer to sell me a 1Mb
upgrade at their cost which I have accepted.  Live and learn...



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