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From: marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 386^max questions
Message-ID: <200020@hpmcaa.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 89 16:31:10 GMT
Organization: HP McMinville Division
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I've got a 386 machine with 3Mbytes of Extended Memory and 2Mbytes of Expanded
Memory.  I develop windows apps, I'm on a network... blah,blah,blah.

I'd like to be able to use part of my extended memory to load some of
my drivers and TSRs.  I understand that 386^max will do this for me (or
a related Qualitas program called 386 load, which I know nothing about).

The problem is, I have expanded memory so I don't need an EMM emulator and
I'd still love to use my extended memory as a cache to improve my windows
performance.

(Windows works much better with Expanded memory and a disk cache).

My current config is to let windows use all 2M of expanded memory for its
own use (i.e. nothing else is using it) and 2M of extended as SmartDrive (+
the 64k used by HIMEM.SYS).

Can I still use 386^max?

Does 386^max come with a windows compatible disk cache?

Comments and suggestions please.

marco "cursing dos and 640k limits" dalla gasperina

marco@hpmcaa