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From: c9c-ba@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (George Voon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Is AT mainboard RAM useful between 640K & 1MB?
Keywords: AT, RAM, 640K
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Date: 12 Nov 88 23:46:05 GMT
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In article <2663@orca.TEK.COM> mstevens@orca.TEK.COM (Mike Stevens) writes:
>QUESTION:  What do I need to do to USE the extra 384K of memory?  I
>tried to set up a ramdisk, but since it isn't extended memory (>1MB),
>the ramdisk was placed in "low" (<640K) memory.  The DOS manuals aren't

Did you use the /e switch?  I also have a generic AT clone with DTK BIOS, but
I use MS-DOS 3.3.  With the /e switch I can create a RAMDISK in the extra
384K and still have the main 640K free.  If it is a problem with DOS 3.21, 
then upgrading DOS might not be too bad an idea.

George Voon