Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: can I put four floppies in an AT clone Keywords: everex ram memory extended expanded Message-ID: <1990Jan5.171736.15733@druid.uucp> Date: 5 Jan 90 17:17:36 GMT References: <10767@ucsd.Edu> <4597@hydra.gatech.EDU> <88@slvblc.UUCP> Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario Lines: 22 In article <88@slvblc.UUCP> dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) writes: > >I have two of the Everex RAM-3000 boards. They are EXTended memory boards, >*not* EXPanded memory boards. LIM in any form is not supported on the board. This is almost true. Although expanded memory was originally designed as a hardware bank switching scheme, the LIM spec allows any sort of memory to be used as expanded. There are many programs that allow any type of extended memory to be used as expanded and I believe that Everex includes one with the RAM-3000. This is the LIM support referred to. As a side note I once used a program which turned a disk file into LIM expanded memory. It was very slow of course but it was useful for developing a program which was destined to use EMS without having to stuff the extra memory in my development machine. Other than speed it worked perfectly. I think it was called Above Disc. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | No disclaimers. I agree with me |