Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!gerardis From: gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: IBM & MS DOS 5.0 - loadhigh on ATs Message-ID: <1991Mar22.234117.25051@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 22 Mar 91 23:41:17 GMT References: <1991Mar21.235323.4706@cs.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 37 In article hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck) writes: >In article <1991Mar21.235323.4706@cs.mcgill.ca> gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS) writes: >> >> If I have a twinhead 386 motherboard with a NEAT chipset and 4MB of >> extended memory, is there any way of loading device drivers into high >> mem. (eg. smartdrv, ramdrive, and mouse.sys(com)). I've been trying with >> no luck for a while! Any help appreciated! Would EMM386 loaded before, do >> the trick? >> > >What I am using on a 386-33 motherboard with Chips & Technology >Chipset and BIOS is QEMM386. I have also successfully used Turbo EMS. >Both of these can load high, but QEMM can load ITSELF high, and has >programs to load FILES=, BUFFERS=, LASTDRIVE= high also. Running on >DOS 4.01, I have 30 files, 50 buffers, lastdrive z, mouse driver, >4DOS, disk cache, ramdisk, ansi.sys, Brooklyn Bridge all loaded high. >I have 590k available for programs after all these are loaded. When >using Turbo EMS, I had about 540k available. > Well I geuss I won't bother with QEMM since I have also 30 files, 50 buffers lastdrive=z mouse driver, disk cache, and ramdisk loaded and still have 595k after all has been loaded! This question wasn't aimed to DOS 4.01 users but to DOS 5.0 which still hasn't 'officially' been released yet! It loads itself into upper memory 'dos=high' and only my device drivers take up mem. I heard there is also a way to get the device drivers into himem with 'devicehigh=' and 'loadhigh' or 'lh' however I have not been succesful with these for my smartdrive, ramdrive, and mouse.com! Thanks For the reply Anyhow! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- gerardis@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca | The sun is the same in a relative way, | but you're older | And shorter of breath and one day | closer to DEATH. -Floyd