rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) (03/03/90)
Fellow Windowers, I KNOW this has been talked over here before, but since I don't have my trustee archives here (they're on another optical disk...YES, I'm on a NeXT machine, wanna make something of it!....fine...) We have a bunch of PS-2 50-Zs and 60's. We have no choice but to run Windows-286 on them. But, IBM has given us extra memory on these things (before you say things like "must be nice" or "who does he know", remember, they ALWAYS give stuff to universities...except SUPPORT!) Anyway, we now have two MB on each machine. BUT, how do I get Windows to look at it? On our AST's I use REMM.SYS and REX.SYS to get the machines to allocate extra memory to extended or expanded memory (LIM 4.0 spec too!). Do the IBM's have anologues? Where? I couldn't find them (we use DOS 4.01) on ANY disks? Which leads to another common question. Does Windws want "extended" or "expanded" mem. We use Excel, Word, and a bunch of home-done stuff. Do these Applications load in conventional ram? Can we make Windows "swap" them to extended or expanded when there's no more room in conventional (i.e. when a user decides to load Word after launching Excel, will Windows SWAP Excel to disk and load Word, or better, load Word in "high" memory while keeping Excel in low and running them both!). These issues are important to us as we just don't have the bucks for 386's yet (and NO, IBM won't give us any either... they only give us stuff to debug for 'em and the 70 and 80 are fairly debugged....:-) ). Thanks in advance! You can mail me directly or post, I'll summarize if there are enough responses because I think the interest is high. --Roger Jagoda --Cornell University --FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU