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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BBS under Desqview & Bocaram AT plus board questions
Keywords: Desqview, DV, Citadel-86, BBS, Bocaram AT plus
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Date: 14 Feb 90 21:45:25 GMT
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In article <1953@rodan.acs.syr.edu> cwebster@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Chris Webster) writes:
|     Finally, can I keep the motherboards' memory enabled, and still get decent
|sized windows?  I really don't need the full 600k or so that DV would give me
|in a window, but I do need something closer to what my biggest window is now,
|450k or so.  I want to use the extended memory I have now for Microsoft's
|Smartdrv.sys (after all, I do have a tortise hard drive) and the EMS memory
|for programs.  Can this be done.

As documented in the DV manual, if you want to do multi-tasking, then
all windows but the first will be limited to the size of EMS that is
mapped in. If you don't disable the motherboard's 640K, then that will
be about 64K.

They strongly suggest you disable as much motherboard memory as
possible. Can you use the RAM from the motherboard on your add in card?
You'd do better putting your cache in EMS anyway.

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