Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Extended memory questions
Keywords: vdisk extended memory cache technical
Message-ID: <368@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 22:30:15 GMT
References: <5003@fluke.COM>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <5003@fluke.COM>, dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck) writes:
> Is there a accepted standard method for using and sharing extended memory?

No.  The cleverest idea I have heard to date is to take the amount of memory
you need from the END of the extended memory and establish your own INT 15
handler to correct the "total" extended memory size reported to anyone
coming after you.  Since not everyone follows this scheme (notably IBM's
VDISK which has it's own perverse method), things which do need to be loaded
before things that don't.  (Of course, the amount of memory you "need" should
probably be specified by the user somehow.)

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