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From: c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: High memory mapping (was Re: DOS 5.0)
Keywords: vga high memory
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.235234.27452@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 23:52:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.071522.29625@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Apr22.113002.4147@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> <1991Apr25.205919.3812@sj.ate.slb.com>
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In article <1991Apr25.205919.3812@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>In article <1991Apr22.113002.4147@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes:
>>I have 645k free conventional memory with Dos 3.3 and Qemm 5.11 with
>>several devices and TSR's installed.
>This must be because you have a system, that allows you to map unused lower
>memory addresses as useable conventional memory, so that total base memory
>is something like 704K. This is kind of cheating since many people can't do
>this. (VGA, don't have the chipsets that allow it, etc).
        ^^^
You can remap up to 96K of your VGA or 256K EGA's memory as conventional
memory (I know of at least one shareware program which does this).

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