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From: jw2b@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Sara J. Wagner)
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Subject: Re: Help needed to set up RAM
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Date: 16 Nov 90 13:13:20 GMT
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In article <1990Nov16.041239.27258@hellgate.utah.edu> cyang%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cheng Yang) writes:
>Hi, my 286 system has 2 MB RAM.  And I am running DOS 4.01 on my machine.
>[deleted...]
>I prefer to have 64K memory to be set as extended memory.(to use the
>HIMEM.SYS drive provided in DOS 4.01)  I could not find a way to do that.
>
>In order to run HIMEM.SYS, I have to give up the expanded memory.  If I want
>to have EMS, I can't run HIMEM.SYS.  Is there a way to reduce the EMS for
>4 pages (64K) so that I set it to extended memory? [more deleted]
>Cheng Yang

I can't help with the technical question, but my experience has been
precisely the opposite -- I have 2 MB RAM on my 286 that is configured
as extended memory, and is just about worthless as such.  I have been
trying for months to find some way to convert this extended memory to
expanded memory, so that programs such as Lotus and WordPerfect can use
the expanded memory.  All of the simulators I have downloaded and tried
take up too much of the base 640K -- some of my programs require a
minimum of 512K free to run.

Unless you have some programs that require EXTENDED memory rather than
EXPANDED, I wouldn't try to convert -- expanded memory is much more
useful, IMO.


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