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From: ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu
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Subject: Re: Using Extended Memory for Expanded Memory
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.023303.6000@pimacc.pima.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 09:33:02 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.000814.1146@saturn.uucp>, martin@saturn.uucp (Martin J. Schedlbauer) writes:
> In article <14235@hacgate.UUCP> ferris@tcville.HAC.COM () writes:
>>
>>Wing Command has some additional functions only available through
>>expanded memory, and I'd like to get at them, but I don't have expanded
>>memory, I have extended memory.  The manual mentions setting up your
>>extended memory to emulate expanded memory to get around this.
> 
> If you have a 386 and more than 1MB of memory you can use one of several
> Memory Managers. MSDOS 4.01 and Windows 3.0 supply EMM386.SYS to do that.
> QEMM from Quarterdeck and other commercial memory managers for the 386
> allow you also to convert all extended to LIM 4.0 expanded memory. In
> addition they also let you load TSR into memory outside the regular 640k
> of DOS given you more 'conventional' memory.
> 
> I know there are some PD programs that can also do that but I have no
> experience with any of these.
> 
> If you have a 286 you'll need a expanded memory board - sorry :(
> 
> 
> 	...Martin
> 
> 
> 
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There are also expanded memory emulators for 286 machines. One such is called
TURBO-EMS & will even let you emulate expanded memory on disk! I cant remember
the publisher though. PHIL