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From: felixc@cbnewsj.att.com (felix.cabral)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Memory Upgrades
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.142413.13818@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 1 Nov 90 14:24:13 GMT
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Ok, I have a 286 with one meg of base memory and 4 megs of extended
memory. However, a lot of programs still can't access the extended
memory. The "mem" command shows only the 640k base memory which is
available for applications. I know why it does that but can I use
some sort of driver to fool the system into using my extended memory
as application segments? Is there such a beast out there?

Note I said extended memory. I don't have expanded memory so forget
about LIM or is it EMS?

I have Windows 3.0 and it doesn't use the extended memory for
applications as far as I know. I dont think I can run in 386 mode
under windows to allow acces to my extended area. Can I?

I hate to think all that memory will be used only for RAM's or cache
and not applications.

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