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From: poffen@molehill (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Everex Ram-3000
Keywords: everex ram memory extended expanded
Message-ID: <1990Jan8.003524.11844@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 8 Jan 90 00:35:24 GMT
References: <15401@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger ATE, San Jose, CA
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In article <15401@well.UUCP> marquis@well.UUCP (Roger Marquis) writes:
>In article <28641@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>>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.
>>
>>Try reading the manual. They do support LIM-EMS and I'm using it right
>>now.
>>
>The older RAM-3000 boards only supported the LIM 3.2 standard. Everex
>made the 3000 LIM 4.0 compatible a few months ago. If you are having
>trouble with programs that use expanded memory check the board and the
>software for LIM X.X compatibility.

Everex did nothing to the hardware to support LIM 4.0. They wrote a driver to
emulate LIM 4.0 in software, no more. You can probably get the driver by
contacting Everex.

Note that this is S/W emulation only, it does NOT support H/W specific things
such as DMA and multitasking in expanded memory.


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