tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) (02/23/90)
I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded or extended). Does anyone know that names of either commercial software or PD that will accomplish this? Thanks, butlert@mcmaster.ca
darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) (02/24/90)
In article <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) writes: >I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use >the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded >or extended). > Above Disc is one. I seem to remember someone mentioning others. It has to be expanded since extended is addressed by the chip and is simply native memory. The only thing extended about it BTW is that it extends beyond what IBM thinks is a proper place for computer memory to end. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid) | Thank goodness we don't get all D'Arcy Cain Consulting | the government we pay for. West Hill, Ontario, Canada | (416) 281-6094 |
fredb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Fred Buechler [Devil Mountain Consulting]) (02/24/90)
In article <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) writes: >I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use >the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded >or extended). > >Does anyone know that names of either commercial software or >PD that will accomplish this? > >Thanks, >butlert@mcmaster.ca The program you are looking for is called _Above Disc_. You can get it from most mail order software houses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fred Buechler fredb@llama.rtech.com Devil Mountain Consulting, Inc 71261.2747@compuserve.com Concord, California # include <DISCLAIMERS.STD> "Don't test for an error condition that you don't know how to handle" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner) (02/24/90)
In article <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) writes: >I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use >the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded >or extended). > >Does anyone know that names of either commercial software or >PD that will accomplish this? > >Thanks, >butlert@mcmaster.ca I have heard of a program called "Above Disk". There are probably others. It emulates EMS on a disk. It is slow compared to real EMS, but it allows you to do things in programs (Lotus 1-2-3) which will overflow to EMS, but not to disk. I haven't used it my self, but I hear that it works. --rick P.S. I just had a thought: try using Above Disk to set up EMS to use for a disk cache ;). -- =============================================================================== Rick Wagner Network Research Corp. rick@nrc.com 2380 North Rose Ave. (805) 485-2700 FAX: (805) 485-8204 Oxnard, CA 93030 Don't hate yourself in the morning; sleep til noon.
ph62303@tut.fi (Hartoma Petri Juhani) (02/28/90)
In article <25E465B9.20395@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> tracey@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Tracey Butler) writes: > I've heard that there is a program that will enable you to use > the hard disk as extra memory (not sure whether it is expanded > or extended). Yes, you're right. VEMM (named as VEUM.ARC in SIMTEL20) can simulate HD as expanded memory (8 MB max.). And if I don't remember wrong it is in "true" Public Domain. In SIMTEL20 you can find it from pd:<msdos.sysutl> named as veum.arc. If You don't have FTP access mail me. (* Petri *) -- $ Petri Hartoma, Tre University of Technology $ "Terve n{kee sen otsallaan- $ $ Internet: ph62303@tut.fi, ph62303@tut.UUCP, $ kin, muttei sit{ laske si- $ $ mcvax!tut!ph62303 $ kakaan" - A.Pohjavirta $