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From: stv@qvax2.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview and EMS 4.0
Message-ID: <639@qvax2.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 89 22:58:34 GMT
References: <6475@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: stv@qvax2.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
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In article <6475@shlump.nac.dec.com> goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com writes:
>
>Okay, please clarify this for me, somebody.
>
>Given the current generation clone-boards with hardware 4.0 support
>(in particular, the Suntac with SEMS4 as the EMS driver), will Desqview
>be able to use expanded memory correctly?  These boards insist that you
>FIRST fill up the 640k base memory before turning all of the remaining
>memory into (switch-selected) expanded or extended memory.

Yes, you are right.  This talk of "removing RAM from the
Motherboard and backfilling" is obsolete.  Modern boards are set
up so that you can have a 1 MB SIMM as your only RAM.  I have 4
such SIMMS on my motherboard, giving me 4 MB.  There is room for
4 more.

If your Motherboard uses the Chips & Technology NEAT chipset,
and/or is real LIM 4.0, not 3.2 with a software driver, then you 
CAN do multitasking, running programs in the background.
HOWEVER, it is not easy.  xdv.exe probably won't help you.  For a
start, you will need a relatively recent version of EMS driver 
from your motherboard manufacturer.  

I will dig up the information at home on this.  Please Email me
if you are interested in doing this (and meet the above
qualifications), so that I have incentive to do so.

By the way, 1 MB goes really fast.  I suggest you think about
buying more RAM.


-- 
Steve Vance
{hplabs,lll-winken,pacbell}!qantel!stv
qantel!stv@lll-winken.llnl.gov
Qantel Business Computers, Hayward, CA