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From: cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question: expanded memory on 386
Message-ID: <804@unccvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 11:34:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 30 11:34:29 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Sep-87 02:49:21 EDT
References: <2839@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: Univ. of NC at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
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Summary: sorry guy

In article <2839@hoptoad.uucp>, flinn@hoptoad.uucp (Ted Flinn) writes:
> 
> My Lotus 1-2-3 thinks there is 400K-odd memory available to it,
> despite my Compaq Deskpro having come with a 2M memory expansion.
 -- Ted Flinn


Sorry Ted, but MS-DOS has a 640K byte limit.  Unless
you use a DOS extender you can't have programs running above
the 1Meg address boundry untill OS/2 comes out.  And even with
one of these so called DOS extenders, LOTUS corp. would have to
recompile their 1-2-3 program to be able to use it.

So, the answer is:  NO 1-2-3 can only use the 400K that it said
it had available to it.  Untill OS/2 the only thing that you can 
use the extra 1408kb is for a RAM disk:

in a config.sys file in your root directory place:

device = vdisk.sys 1408 /E

the /E tells vdisk.sys device driver, that the memory to be used
for the virtual disk is in extended memory.

hope this helps.....
OS/2 is REALLY on its wy so hold on... help is on the way...

/Carl
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