afinlayson@kean.ucs.mun.ca (10/27/90)
Two questions about my T1000 SE: 1.) Although the little dear is billed as having 1 meg of RAM, in fact 640K is ROM occupied by DOS 3.3. Because I use my laptop just as a notebook when away from my big box, I could do without a lot of the DOS files like CHKDISC and DISCOPY etc. Is there anyway around the defences on these files and a way to convert the saved space into true RAM? 2.) Twice when saving large files (50 K or so working in WP 4.2) I have gotten the message that the file was too big to save in hard RAM. No problem, save to disc. But curiously, the readout at the top of the WP directory menu says that there's 80 or 90 K available, plenty of room it would seem. Why won't it fit? Thanks, Chris Finlayson, Dept. Sociology, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (10/29/90)
>>>>> On 26 Oct 90 17:17:15 GMT, afinlayson@kean.ucs.mun.ca said: > Two questions about my T1000 SE: > 1.) Although the little dear is billed as having 1 meg of RAM, It actually *does* have 1 meg of RAM. > in fact > 640K is ROM occupied by DOS 3.3. There is 1 MB of RAM complete separate from the DOS 3.3 ROM. However, because MS-DOS is brain dead, you can only access 640K of it directly. The other 384K of memory can be configured as a "HardRAM" disk, or it can be used as EMS memory for programs that can use it. But either way, you don't get access to that 384K straight out of the box; you have to do something to get to it. > Because I use my laptop just as a > notebook when away from my big box, I could do without a lot of the > DOS files like CHKDISC and DISCOPY etc. Is there anyway around the > defences on these files and a way to convert the saved space into true > RAM? I believe that SETUP10 enables the extra 384K as a HardRAM drive, but I've never tried. You can also set up EMS memory. To do this, put the following into the machine's CONFIG.SYS file: device=emm.sys Because the CONFIG.SYS file lives in non-volatile memory, you will need to copy CONFIG.SYS to floppy, edit the copy, then store it back into non-volatile memory using the SETUP10 program. > 2.) Twice when saving large files (50 K or so working in WP 4.2) I have gotten > the message that the file was too big to save in hard RAM. No > problem, save to disc. But curiously, the readout at the top of the > WP directory menu says that there's 80 or 90 K available, plenty of > room it would seem. Why won't it fit? Perhaps WP files take up a lot more space on disk than they do in memory. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "the salesperson is our primary communications tool in leading the consumer to believe our products entertain, provide information, make their lives easier and more comfortable...our objective is to inform the consumer what to buy, and why they need it"