Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag
From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 1 Megabytes on motherboard -- Can we use it all???
Keywords: Use extended memory as expanded?
Message-ID: <25E9E054.20691@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 27 Feb 90 02:05:08 GMT
References: <432@adiron.UUCP>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Distribution: usa
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <432@adiron.UUCP> frank@adiron.UUCP (Corradino) writes:
$When any unit is powered up, the RAM test counts to 1024 kbytes of memory.
$Visual inspection reveals that all RAM is installed on the motherboard (no
$memory boards are installed).
$Questions:
$1) Is the memory beyond 640 k extended memory?

   Yes.

$2) We want to use this memory for Ventura 2.0 which supports expanded memory.
$   Will any of the following SIMTEL utilities allow this?
$   <MSDOS.SYSUTL>EMS40.ARC    (Driver: use extended memory as EMS 4.0 memory)

   This is the only one I'm familiar with; it's from PC Magazine.  It will
do what you need, but a few warnings:

- it's slow
- it eats up about 70K of your main memory (64K for the page frame and
  the rest for the driver)
- it doesn't work with all combinations of software

   It's worth giving a shot ... just don't do anything terribly important
until you're sure it's working in your environment.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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