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From: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,(???))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: >640k Memory question
Summary: What do I do with it?
Message-ID: <15007@reed.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 90 05:58:07 GMT
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Reply-To: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
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Following my having to get my el-cheapo clone maker to put RAM chips fast
enough for my AT in, I find myself the proud owner of an extra 384K on my AT
clone.

My question is, what do I do with this oh-so-wonderful extra memory?


From the user end of things -

what programs support it? I'm aware of QEMM, which loads TSRs into this
upper space.  I also have several disk cache programs that use this space,
but as a rule I dont believe in disk caches.. Other than that, even my
wonderful editor (QEdit) doesn't seem to handle this extra memory the way it
claims it should.  Is there RAM disk software that handles it well?

what is the name for AT memory > 640k? Its the standard on-the-motherboard
stuff. Does anyone use the other type of memory any more?


From the programmer end of things -

how do I address it? Are there any good references on using this memory for
data space?