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From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: IBM & MS DOS 5.0 - loadhigh on ATs
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.212647.28922@santra.uucp>
Date: 20 Mar 91 21:26:47 GMT
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In article <RICHARD.91Mar20164814@alpha.iesd.auc.dk> richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) writes:
>

>  I've permuted the device driver lines in my config.sys quite heavily
>and don't think there's any combination I haven't tried. Currently, it
>reads
>	device = c:\dos\dos500\himem.sys
>	dos = high
>	[other devices, shell, break, etc ... nothing using extended RAM]

You should load the other devices with

devicehigh=....

in order to load them above the 640 limit.

>  My question is: does anybody know, if this "you can load drivers and
>TSRs high also on 286 ATs"-tale belongs in alt.folklore.urban or, if
>not, what I should do to make it behave?

Yes, you can load devices high on ATs. 


//Markus