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From: derrick@tahoe.unr.edu (Derrick Hamner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Background Communications under Desqview
Message-ID: <1504@tahoe.unr.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 88 17:25:42 GMT
References: <595@unh.UUCP> <7750@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: derrick@tahoe.unr.edu.UUCP (Derrick Hamner)
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In article <7750@cup.portal.com> davel@cup.portal.com writes:
}If you have a 286, your communications program has to be the FIRST program
}loaded so that it resides in the Original 640k. Try to tell desqview to use
}as little memory for that program as possible so other programs can run in
}the original 640K.
}
}The other programs can swap out of whats left of the original 640k but the
}communications program must stay.
}
}Don't worry obout EEMS, Desqview comes with a EEMS driver for Extended mem.
}
}
}If you had a 386..... you wouldn't have to worry about the lower 640k
}
}
}davel@cup.portal.com

	This isn't true.  I have a 286, and I do this with no problem.  You do
need EEMS (or LIM 4.0), in order to run any program in expanded memory
(perhaps this is what you were refering to).  The only limitation is when
you set a program as "non-swapable", it will not be shifted around in
memory either.  Thus it is better to load as much as possible in expanded
memory because every program needs some normal memory (so you wish to have
as much normal memory free as possible).  In summary, this is true with LIM
3.x, but not with LIM 4.0 or EEMS.

Derrick

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