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From: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EMS
Summary: Shadow RAM is *below* 1 MB
Keywords: EMS shadow RAM 386 BIOS
Message-ID: <1990Apr14.061059.3664@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 90 06:10:59 GMT
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In article <3876.2625f50e@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>Well, first of all, if you have a 386, you shouldn't be using PC Mag's EMS
>simulator, since that was designed to work on 286 machines and won't take
>advantage of the features of the 386.  So yes, you are wasting memory - you
>should get Qualitas' 386 to the Max, or Quarterdeck's QEMM-386.
>
>The 384K is already above the 1MB boundary, so you don't have to worry about
>that.

Not so. If it is shadow RAM, then it is below 1MB. Many bioses set the memory
between 640 K and 1MB to shadow if the computer has more than 2 MB, so the
original poster was right to be concerned.

kartik




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Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
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