Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 to the max
Summary: good stuff
Message-ID: <432@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 22:24:15 GMT
References: <1750@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <1750@dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> I've heard of a product called '386 to the max' which enables you to
> configure your 386 memory to either EMS or extended memory.
> 
> Anyone know who makes it, and how to contact them? Thanks in advance...

It's from Qualitas, Inc.  (301) 469-8848, but I suggest getting
it from one of the discount houses (e.g. Programmer's Connection,
Programmer's Paradise, etc.) since they're much cheaper.

For those that aren't familiar with it, it uses the 386's virtual
memory hardware to remap extended memory into the first meg where
DOS can use it.  This is done in a number of ways: holes are
filled in so if you have less than 640k, you get 640k anyway,
plus the hole between the video buffer and the bios roms is
filled in and there's an option to load tsrs there rather than
having them take up space in the lower 640k; a 64k page frame is
allocated for LIM 4.0 expanded memory, and it will even copy roms
(which are slow) into ram (which is fast).  If you have different
speed memory, it will also allow you to replace the slow ram with
fast!

Needless to say, I like it a lot.

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