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From: billb@stech.UUCP (Bill Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: High Memory Networking?
Keywords: 286, TSR, extended memory
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Date: 25 Aug 89 03:42:23 GMT
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In article <1239@rlgvax.UUCP> golds@rlgvax.UUCP (Rich Goldschmidt) writes:
>Does anyone out there have some experience in using high memory (extended)
>for networking applications to regain conventional memory for real 
>applications?  We have gone to using TSR's as our network communications 
>platform for our PC applications, but some networking environments, especially 
>PC-NFS, take so much memory, that we have trouble getting enough memory for
>real applications and MS-Windows environments.  

Here are a few items:

Charge Card - Hardware
    Allows relocation of TSR's, device drivers, files=, buffers= in
        config.sys to extended or expanded memory.  Also provides
	EMS 4.0 support using extended memory.
    Installed by removing '286 chip (tool included) and plugging in
        the credit-card sized device.  Since there are different
	styles of CPU's, LCC and PLCC, you need to know what style
	you have.
    Contact
        All Computers, Inc.  800-387-2744
	They will probably refer you to a local dealer.
    A Dealer (in New Jersey)
        IRT  212-371-8538
        Paul Lachman has been very helpful in answering my questions.

HICARD - Hardware
    Allows relocation of TSR's, files=, buffers= in config.sys.  Finds
        unused portions of memory above 640K and utilizes it.
        Don't know any further details.
    Installed by plugging in a card to the PC bus.
    Contact
        RYBS Electronics, Inc.
	2590 Central Ave.
	Boulder, CO 80301
	303-444-6073
    A demo disk is available which will show how much memory can be utilized
        on your machine.  Have not received this yet.

HIMEM.SYS - Software
    A device driver that comes with MS-Windows/286 which salvages about 64K
        of memory.  After reading about this in a magazine, I eagerly 
	looked for this device driver on our Windows 2.01 disks and did
	not find it.  It apparently is there in later releases.
	
Have heard rumors of other software that performs this function but don't
have any names.

Please note that I have not used any of these items and don't endorse any
of them.  I'm simply passing on what I have heard for solving the problem
of TSR's eating up conventional memory.

If anyone has any additions (or corrections) to this list, I'm sure many
would appreciate it (including me).  Since this question comes up every
now and then, it would be nice to get a comprehensive list together with
comparisons of features, cost, etc.  Please e-mail.

>Rich Goldschmidt
>uunet!rlgvax!golds   or   golds@uunet.uu.net

-Bill
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