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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: **** PHEONIX 386 BIOS QUESTION IN MY ZEOS LAPTOP! ****
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Date: 27 Sep 90 16:38:25 GMT
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>It says that the 384K IS *RESERVED* and I can't get the BIOS to
>free it up... I've disable all bios, video ram, shadowing etc. since
>they aren't too important to me (since I thought the 384K was
>allocated to all those speed up features..) 

This is the way it is supposed to be. It is possible to use this memory.
There are programs that reclaim the portions that are actually unused.
QRAM from Quarterdeck is one example. Zeos may have actually supplied
you with a utility that reclaims this memory. Many clone makes supply
such a utility with their version of MSDOS.

The danger you will have reclaiming this memory is that unused portions
may not always be unused even though the utility thinks it is unused.
Shadowing ramming often confuses high memory programs. In general you should
be able to resuse this space but if you encounter a program that will not
work properly, one of the tests you should remember to make is 
unclaim high memory and see if the program now works.

			   Danny Low
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