skkim@ihlpm.UUCP (sung kyu kim) (09/16/85)
<<munch>> Are there anyone who can send me information on how to obtain documentations( manuals, articles, schematics, etc.) on AT&T PC hardware? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Please send replys to following address via e-mail UUCP: ihnp4!nwuxa!yount
skkim@ihlpm.UUCP (sung kyu kim) (09/23/85)
<munch> I have a AT&T PC 6300 and it was upgraded to 640k using 256k RAMs on mother board. Are there any RAM disk programs that can be run on AT&T pc without any modification? I have tried 2 RAM disk programs for IBM pc but failed to run it on AT&T pc. If most decent RAM disk programs need modification, please tell me where I can find articles or documents on that matter. Thanks in advance.
wcs@ho95e.UUCP (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) (09/24/85)
> I have a AT&T PC 6300 and it was upgraded to 640k using 256k RAMs on > mother board. Are there any RAM disk programs that can be run on AT&T > pc without any modification? I have tried 2 RAM disk programs for IBM > pc but failed to run it on AT&T pc. If most decent RAM disk programs > need modification, please tell me where I can find articles or documents > on that matter. "PC Accelerator" worked just fine. I'm surprised that some others don't - I would have expected that kind of product to use MS-DOS generic routines instead of depending on "real IBM" BIOS. -- ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs
xxajtxx@hou2d.UUCP (A.THANGARAJ) (09/25/85)
<<<<<<<%%%%%%%######|||||$$$$!!!&&(line^eater)&&!!!$$$$|||||######%%%%%%%>>>>>>> >From: skkim@ihlpm.UUCP (sung kyu kim) >I have a AT&T PC 6300 and it was upgraded to 640k using 256k RAMs on >mother board. Are there any RAM disk programs that can be run on AT&T >pc without any modification? I have tried 2 RAM disk programs for IBM >pc but failed to run it on AT&T pc. If most decent RAM disk programs >need modification, please tell me where I can find articles or documents >on that matter. MEMBRAIN is a ramdisk program that works fine on the PC6300. It is quite flexible and lets you define the size of the ramdisk, the size of each sector, the number of sectors per cluster and the maximum number of filenames that the ramdisk directory can hold. The default values for the above are 160K, 512 bytes/sector, 1 sector per cluster and 64 filenames. The ramdisk is assigned the next available drive letter (C: if you do not have a hard disk, D: if you have a hard disk). The MEMBRAIN.EXE file is 3072 bytes long, but once you've used it to create the ramdisk, all you need is the MEMBRAIN.SYS file, which is only 655 or so bytes long. This file should be present on your boot-up disk, to create the ramdisk. You also need a config.sys file on you boot-up disk, that includes the statement: DEVICE=MEMBRAIN.SYS As far as I know, MEMBRAIN is freeware, in the public domain, as I've seen it on various bulletin boards, with no strings attached. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this point, as IT IS IMPORTANT! It might also be of interest to the community to know which ramdisk programs don't work on the PC6300. Perhaps someone could figure out why they don't work, and point up some fixes. ....arun. _______ _______ Suite HR1K228 / * \ _ / * \ all views are | * | / \ | * | 480 Red Hill Rd |* * H * *| <(GSP)> |* * R * *| my own, etc... | * | \_/ | * | Middletown NJ 07724 | * |Garden State | * | +-------------+ Parkway +-------------+ hou2d!xxajtxx | R E D |Exit 114 | H I L L | ..the future +-------------------------------------------+ 201-949-9127 |R E Q U I E M B Y T H E P A R K W A Y| lies in PC's +-------------------------------------------+
hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (09/25/85)
The AST ramdisk works fine on the 6300, without the use of the AST expansion card. Herman Silbiger homxb!hrs
akers@oliven.UUCP (Rob Akers) (09/26/85)
> <munch> > > I have a AT&T PC 6300 and it was upgraded to 640k using 256k RAMs on > mother board. Are there any RAM disk programs that can be run on AT&T > pc without any modification? I have tried 2 RAM disk programs for IBM > pc but failed to run it on AT&T pc. If most decent RAM disk programs > need modification, please tell me where I can find articles or documents > on that matter. > > Thanks in advance. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (10/01/85)
>From: xxajtxx@hou2d.UUCP (A.THANGARAJ) >Message-ID: <723@hou2d.UUCP> >Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ > >It might also be of interest >to the community to know which ramdisk programs don't work on the PC6300. >Perhaps someone could figure out why they don't work, and point up some >fixes. >From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) >Message-ID: <837@homxb.UUCP> >Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ > >The AST ramdisk works fine on the 6300, without the use >of the AST expansion card. The Quadram driver from the Quadboard does not- at least not always. This is because the driver performs an INT 19 to soft reboot the system. Unfortunately, this interrupt does not always work. On the other hand, the VDISK.SYS driver from DOS 3.x works great. -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 222-6600 x366 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Disclaimer: Monmouth College is a mecca for diverse opinions. It is, therefore, highly unlikely that the above opinions are those of anyone but me. "Are we gonna be starcrossed lovers or just good friends?"
stiber@zeus.cs.ucla.edu (Michael D Stiber) (07/29/86)
I have two questions that I hope someone can/will answer:
1) I have increased the environment size using the CONFIG.SYS command
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /e:32
Now, AUTOEXEC.BAT doesn't run automatically. Is there a way to fix
this?
2) I would like to convert an assembly language .COM program that
terminates and stays resident (using INT 27H) into a C (.EXE)
program. This would require use of function call 31H (Terminate
Process and Remain Resident). How can my program determine the
number of paragraphs of memory that it requires.
I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can give me. Thanks!
Michael Stiber
ARPANET: stiber@ucla-locus.arpa
USENET: ...{ucbvax,ihpn4}!ucla-cs!stiberhants@hp-sdd.UUCP (Hants White) (07/31/86)
In article <239@curly.ucla-cs.ARPA> stiber@zeus.UUCP (Michael D Stiber) writes: > >I have two questions that I hope someone can/will answer: > >1) I have increased the environment size using the CONFIG.SYS command > SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /e:32 > Now, AUTOEXEC.BAT doesn't run automatically. Is there a way to fix > this? > >2) I would like to convert an assembly language .COM program that > terminates and stays resident (using INT 27H) into a C (.EXE) > program. This would require use of function call 31H (Terminate > Process and Remain Resident). How can my program determine the > number of paragraphs of memory that it requires. > >I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can give me. Thanks! > I can only help you with the first question. The line in your CONFIG.SYS file needs to be SHELL=d:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:62 The '/P' parameter tells COMMAND.COM to stay resident... as you have it now, if you type exit at the command line, the computer will lock up because it will not have a command interpreter. For fun, you might also try the '/D' parameter. It tells command.com not to execute AUTOEXEC.BAT when it boots. (Try it as a joke on someone else's machine...the, most likely, will not be able to figure out why their autoexec file is not autoexec'ing.) Hants
rde@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Eager) (08/01/86)
To make COMMAND.COM read the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, you must include the /P
(Permanent copy) switch.
To get the number of paragraphs, I do something like:
ORG 0
$BEGIN=$
.
.
.
[after last byte of wanted code]
SIZE=$-$BEGIN
[arithmetic to round SIZE to next 16 byte boundary]
.
.
MOV DX,(OFFSET SIZE SHR 4) ; is this the right register? no manual here...
.
That should do it.
--
Bob Eager
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