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From: earl@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS Windows 286 and Extended/Expande
Message-ID: <216100091@trsvax>
Date: 23 May 89 13:58:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!earl    May 23 08:58:00 1989



/* ---------- "MS Windows 286 and Extended/Expande" ---------- */
Could somebody tell me if MicroSoft Windows 286 on an AT can make
direct use of any AT extended or LIM expaned memory.
Thanks in advance.
-- 
Samuel Lam     {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,cs.ubc.ca}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     I personally use Windows/286 version 2.1 at home on my machine.

     Microsoft includes with Windows a program called SMARTDRV.SYS. This
     program permits you to use "extended memory" as a cache for Windows.

     Microsoft also provides programs for using some LIM spec boards setup
     to run as "expanded memory". I am using a AST Rampage 286 board setup
     as expanded memory myself. They also have a program called HIMEM.SYS 
     that lets you use an extra 64k of extended memory with the main 640k
     or RAM below one meg.


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