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From: rob@conexch.UUCP (Robert Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Extended Memory Configuration
Message-ID: <41834@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 90 16:14:57 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.172609.2820@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1990Jun5.172609.2820@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jw2b@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Sara J. Wagner) writes:
>I have upgraded my work computer from an IBM XT to a WIN TurboAT,
>                                The problem came when I discovered
>that the drivers for the extended memory seem to be taking up some 
>of the original 640K, to the point that programs like Ventura 
>Desktop Publishing (which requires 512K free) would not run.  I 
>
>DEVICE=C:\EXMM.SYS -r3 -e1400

If you use an expanded memory manager on a '286, it must take up som of
system memory.  On a '386 this isn't necesary, it can use other means of
memory mapping to accomplish bank swapping for expanded memory.

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