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From: kwong@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ka Chin Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: EMS 4.0 on C&T NEAT chips set
Message-ID: <25d2648d.1f86@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 90 06:34:53 GMT
Reply-To: kwong@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ka Chin Wong)
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Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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Hi everyone.

    I have a 286 using C&T NEAT chips set.  Not long ago, I heard someone
mentioned that the EMS driver from NEAT, which is supposed to conform
EMS 4.0 standard, is not implemented correctly.  The result is Windows can 
use 64k of the expanded memory for itself, leaving 320k of conventional
memory.  When I run Actor 2.0 with Windows, I have 15k conventional memory,
which is virtually unusable.

    Does anyone have a simular problem with the NEAT EMS driver?  Anyway
to fix or work around?

    I am thinking of giving up the EMS driver.  Set my 2 meg memory to
extended and use one of those EMS emulator (Turbo EMS, Above Disk ...).
Anyone have experience using them?  What about the performance and 
compatibility?  Is it stupid to give up an EMS driver that the motherboard
support and use an emulator instead?

    I mainly want to run Actor in Windows with more the 20k convention
memory free.  Any comment would be greatly appreciated.

Rick