Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!pasteur!juliet!c164-al From: c164-al@juliet.uucp (Joon Song) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: In praise of QEMM-386 Message-ID: <10572@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 29 Jan 91 06:58:22 GMT References: <3981@stl.stc.co.uk> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c164-al@juliet.UUCP (Joon Song) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 23 In article valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) writes: > Given that programs often need much more space to load than they > leave resident, it should be possible to load them in such a way > that even though there isn't enough High Ram available for their > load image, if there is enough available for their TSR image, > all is well. I.e., 386MAX supposedly (haven't seen it up close > and personal) allows you to temporarily deactivate the EMS page > frame, so that a TSR can load part of its run time image there. > I.e., suppose your TSR requires 40K to load, but only 17K resident. > Further, suppose that the only remaining slot of High Ram starts > at D800:0 and the EMS page frame is at E000:0. > > Would QEMM allow you to load your TSR high? If so, how? How about - device = c:\qemm\qemm386.sys ram frame=none forceems This is probably not the solution you had in mind, but it will let you free up the EMS page frame, and use it to load TSR's and other device drivers. Joon Song