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From: fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6510300~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Starlan 3.0 and 6300 Plus
Summary: you can take advantage of LIM on 3.0 starlan clients
Keywords: LIM expanded memory Starlan 3.0 client
Message-ID: <4135@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Aug 89 17:05:27 GMT
Expires: 13 Sep 89 23:00:00 GMT
References: <15572@netsys.netsys.COM>
Reply-To: fmcgee@cuuxb.UUCP (Frank W. McGee)
Followup-To: comp.sys.att
Distribution: comp
Organization: AT&T Computer Systems, Lisle, IL
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In article <15572@netsys.netsys.COM> len@netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
>I have been told that it's possible for the latest version to
>make use of extended or expanded memory to load into,thus freeing
>up all the main dos ram.. Is this true, and what are the requirements?
>Thanks a bunch.

This is true, but you have to have LIM (expanded) memory.  The ISO (3.0 or
better) Starlan client software will allow you to load most of the software in
expanded memory (about 60k) with a small program stub in the 0-640K area.  The
buyback is about 60k in most cases.  On the Plus, you'd need a special memory
card that supports LIM to do this.

Note that this doesn't buy you much on concurrent client servers, the entire
server portion must be loaded into the area between 0 and 640k, which doesn't
leave you much for MSDOS applications.

-- 
Frank McGee, AT&T
Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support
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