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From: jwc@bdrc.UUCP (Joan Curry)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: putting PCNFS drivers in extended/expanded memory
Message-ID: <444@bdrc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 15:22:33 GMT
References: <8909101827.aa05973@ICS.UCI.EDU>
Reply-To: jwc@bdrc.UUCP (Joan Curry)
Organization: Becton Dickinson Rsrch Cntr, RTP, NC
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In article <8909101827.aa05973@ICS.UCI.EDU> milne@ICS.UCI.EDU (Alastair Milne) writes:
>
>   We are working with some development software on Tandy 4000's that are on
>   an NFS net, using PC-NFS. [...]  So what I'd like
>   to do is get the network drivers into extended or expanded (anybody know
>   the difference?) memory, where they won't compete for primary memory.  But
>   I haven't seen a way of doing this.  Does anybody have one -- presumably a
>   set of switch settings that can be added to the DEVICE= statements in
>   CONFIG.SYS? [...]
>

We've been successful in putting two out of three PC-NFS drivers (pcnfs.sys
and sockdrv.sys) into expanded memory on a Compaq 386 by using the memory
management software product 386 Max.  Let me know if you want any details.

(I have no connection with Qualitas Inc., the folks who provide 386 Max.)

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Joan Curry  bdrc!jwc@mcnc.org