frank@adiron.UUCP (Corradino) (02/21/90)
We are using three configurations of PCs in our publications department: + IBM Model 60, VGA + IBM 7532 (industrial AT), CGA + AT clones (Bentley is the name, we suspect they have gone south), CGA 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? 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.AT>EMSIM.ARC (use Extended memory as Expanded memory) <MSDOS.SYSUTL>EMS40.ARC (Driver: use extended memory as EMS 4.0 memory) <MSDOS.SYSUTL>EMMRAM21.ARC (Expand DOS RAM to 736K w/Enh. or LIM 4.0 mem.) 3) If answer to 2) is no, does anyone have any other ideas? Frank Corradino email: uunet!adiron!frank PAR Technology Corp. phone: (315) 738-0600 Ext 338 New Hartford, NY 13413 disclaimer: you bet!
cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) (02/27/90)
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.
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Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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