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From: slin@campanile.berkeley.edu (Steven Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to get 384K RAM back
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Date: 8 Dec 90 21:22:58 GMT
References: <10084:Dec420:11:3890@stealth.acf.nyu.edu# <1755@gold.gvg.tek.com> <167@raysnec.UUCP>
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In article <167@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes:
>grege@gold.gvg.tek.com (Greg Ebert) writes:
>
>>Maybe you're looking for it in the wrong place. Everything from 640k - 1M is
>>reserved for video ram, BIOS, etc. The RAM *should* appear between 1M and 
>>1.384M. You should use the shadow ROM; I've seen shadowed video BIOS and it
>>is *damn* fast. 
>
>	That appears to be the case with many systems (like our own NEC 386)
>but not with all systems. 

All motherboards manufactured by Micronics put the 384k way up at the
16M (yes, 16 Megabyte) boundary.  Quarterdeck's expanded memory manager
(QEMM) will automatically recover this 384k for use as expanded memory,
provided you disable hardware shadowing.  Note QEMM will shadow for you
if you want it.

I do not work for Quarterdeck.