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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Using EMS 4.0 with Windows
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Date: 30 Apr 89 23:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Apr 30 18:38:00 1989



>I have a AT clone that uses the NEAT ChipSet with built-in LIM EMS 4.0
>support and 1MB on board. On boot, the EMS driver reports 640K conventional
>memory and 384K expanded. In Windows 2.10, the About Windows window also
>shows 384K expanded memory. Yet, Windows constantly warns that it is running
>out of memory, or insufficient memory to run an application. 
>When the warnings appear About Windows shows less than 32K conventional
>memory and 320K expanded still available! It seems that no more than 64K of the 
>expanded is ever used by Windows. The applications I'm running are just
>the Windows applications (Write, etc.) and Actor.

>Can anyone help me?
Yes, of course, Microsoft can help you! They can rewrite Windows so
it is not such a memory hog.

Windows 2.10 and the programs supplied with it don't use expanded memory 
AT ALL. Apparently Actor doesn't either. It IS possible to write a
Windows program that uses expanded memory just like any regular
program does.