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From: querubin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: SupersPort 286 memory.
Message-ID: <7574@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 5 May 90 09:17:17 GMT
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Reply-To: querubin@uhccux.UUCP (Antonio Querubin)
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The extra 384K of memory in a Supersport 286 is useable only as expanded
memory.  Press Ctrl-Alt-Ins and enter 'setup'.  Then seleect the memory 
configuration as expanded memory even though you don't have memory beyond the
1 Mbyte limit.  This will let emm.sys see 256k of this extra memory as
expanded memory and all your software that knows how to use expanded memory
can now access it.  128K of memory is used to hold a copy of the BIOS as 
'shadow RAM'.  The BIOS code runs faster when executed from RAM than from ROM.

I complained to Zenith about this 'deceptive advertising'.  If they were gonna
steal 128K for 'shadow RAM' then they should have said the Supersport 286 comes
with only 916K of useable RAM.  Or provided 1132K of RAN in the first place.