Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:1518 comp.os.msdos.programmer:4138 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!ucivax!megatek!tau!hollen From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: IBM & MS DOS 5.0 - loadhigh on ATs Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 15:23:53 GMT References: <91078.145407CES8@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: hollen@megatek.UUCP Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California Lines: 25 In-reply-to: richard@iesd.auc.dk's message of 20 Mar 91 16:48:14 GMT In article richard@iesd.auc.dk (Richard Flamsholt S0rensen) writes: > > I've tried a beta version of the new DOS (MSDOS 500.409e I think...) > because I'd heard, that it could load device drivers and TSRs high > even on 286-based ATs. My machine is a two year old AT with 384Kb of > plain extended RAM (no shadow, chip&techologies, NEAT or whatever). > I tried so (using "loadhigh "), and it didn't complain > but it didn't load anything high > 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? > The key here is that you don't have a NEAT chipset and you also probably don't have something like an INTEL AboveBoard. You need the HARDWARE capability to support XMS or you cannot load device drivers high. I went through this for several months and finally ended up getting a 386 with REAL MMU capabilities. Software with the ability to load device drivers into upper memory will not work unless the underlying HARDWARE support is present. -- ----- Dion Hollenbeck (619) 455-5590 x2814 Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA 92121 uunet!megatek!hollen or hollen@megatek.uucp