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From: umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: What's Extented memory good for??
Message-ID: <1989Sep18.165750.11540@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 18 Sep 89 16:57:50 GMT
Sender: Wayne Hudson (umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca)
Reply-To: umhudso7@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Keywords: extended memory help


  I have a Wells American Compustar with 2 MB, most of which is called
EXTENDED memory, so I'm told, and that it can't really be used as is.
THEY say that it must be used only by specialized programs or with 
LIM emulation software.  What I really want to do is use that EXTENDED
memory as CONVENTIONAL memory.
  I'm constantly running short of memory (I'm looking at buying more,
but it's EXPENSIVE!!) and when I check, there's all this EXTENDED
memory just sitting there, humming to itself.  Isn't there ANY way
(official or not) that I can _use_ this memory for everything I run
from DOS, not just specialized programs.  I like the disk caching,
but I'd like to put that memory to more (if not BETTER) use.

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