singhal@houxa.UUCP (11/20/87)
Dear net-folks, A friend of mine gave me a bargain on two Lotus/Intel extended memory boards, and I could not resist buying them. Now that I have 4 meg of extended memory available, I find myself hard pressed to find uses for it. I now realize that very few programs even know about its existence. Currently I am using my extended memory for : a) RAM disk (1.5 meg) b) Disk cache (1 meg) c) Print spooler (.5 meg) Rest of the 1 meg is sitting around idling just in case some program wants to use it as data space. Except of Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2 (which I don't use) I know of no other program which uses extended memory for data space. My question to the net is this : Can anyone suggest more useful/efficient/fun ways of using my ocean of extended memory ? Which programs are out there which can help me get the most out of it ? I am especially interested in RAM resident programs which use only a tiny fraction of main memory and perform most of their lurking around in extended memory. I understand that vaporware Sidekick+ will use it but who knows how and when ! Thanks a lot. ---Sharad Singhal
fhm@cblpf.UUCP (11/25/87)
> > A friend of mine gave me a bargain on two Lotus/Intel extended memory > boards, and I could not resist buying them. Now that I have 4 meg of > extended memory available, I find myself hard pressed to find uses for it. I > now realize that very few programs even know about its existence. . . > My question to the net is this : Can anyone suggest more > useful/efficient/fun ways of using my ocean of extended memory ? Which > ---Sharad Singhal Look at "DESQview" by Quarterdeck Office Systems. It lets you have several programs running at the same time-and lets you switch between them instantly. It is multitasking - The programs can run in the background. It uses expanded memory to swap programs. Frank H. Myers
psc@lznv.UUCP (11/25/87)
<In Syracuse, you dress in a tie; in Ephesus, you juggle . . . or die!> In article <1640@houxa.UUCP>, singhal@houxa.UUCP (S.SINGHAL) writes: > Currently I am using my extended memory for: > RAM disk (1.5M); disk cache (1M); print spooler (.5M) > Rest of the 1 meg is sitting around idling just in case some program wants > to use it as data space. >... > My question to the net is this: Can anyone suggest more > useful/efficient/fun ways of using my ocean of extended memory? Which > programs are out there which can help me get the most out of it? I am > especially interested in RAM resident programs which use only a tiny > fraction of main memory and perform most of their lurking around in > extended memory. > Thanks a lot, Sharad Singhal Well, you could always give one of the boards to me. . . . No, huh? Well, pick up a copy of PC Tools (version 3.x or higher) from Central Point Software. It's a nice disk utility: moves, copies, erases, unerases, backs up, restores, browses, and edits disks and files. It can be invoked as a "normal" program, or as a pop-up. As a pop-up, it can stay resident in expanded memory. (Um, expanded is LIM EMS, and extended is 286 protected mode, right?) PC Tools lists for $40; I've seen it for as low as $19. (From Telemart; and a friend of mine bought it through them.)