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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Extended Memory Board
Keywords: Extended Memory Board
Message-ID: <1990Jan6.222411.5807@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 6 Jan 90 22:24:11 GMT
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Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <6169@ubc-cs.UUCP> jalbert@cs.ubc.ca (Francois Jalbert) writes:
>Hello everybody. I have been looking for a while without success for 
>the following:
>
>   4 Mb of extended-only memory starting at 1384 Kb in memory space.
>
>So far, none of the dealers I talked to knows anything about such
>boards. They looked into their books and found nothing appropriate.
>If I can supply them with a maker and model number, they claim that
>they could try to get one for me. 
>

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You will probably do OK with a memory board that supports both EMS and extended
memory. (Most boards do these days.) Anything like an Everex RAM-3000 or Intel
Aboveboard/AT would do. These boards allow flexible starting addresses, BOTH
extended AND expanded memory including mixing of both at the same time or the
obvious case of either ALL extended or ALL expanded, just configure it to ALL
extended.

Note that I had difficulty with a RAM-3000 being incompatible with my AT clone,
it seems it may not support faster bus speeds. The Intel Aboveboard/AT is a
good buy even though it's configuration options were a little less flexible
the RAM-3000.

Prices on these can be had for ~$140 (0K installed) and can support up to 6-8Mb
with piggyback cards (~$60).

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