david@bdt.com (David Beckemeyer) (05/14/91)
After several years of not having to worry about "the 640K
barrier" because I was running Unix, I now have to get up
to speed on what's up in the DOS world.
My state-of-the-art DOS machine is a 10 Mhz 286 box with
4 MB of RAM. At this point, I've disabled 384K, giving the
machine a total of 640K base plus 3072K extended memory
(1MB on motherboard and 3MB on Elephant RAM board). The
Elephant board won't do hardware EMS.
What can be done with this platform? Are there any memory
management utilities that will actually use the 3MB of
RAM? At this point I'm using 2MB for a VDISK RAM disk and
the other MB for PC-CACHE (version 5.5). I've heard that
PC-CACHE isn't reliable. Is this true?
Can TSRs be loaded into extended memory on a 286? Can Windows
3.0 or Desqview use the extended memory on a 286? Do any of the
EMS simulators work? Should I use one? What Windows 3.0 modes
are available on a 286? Can you run DOS programs inside Windows
windows.
Thanks for any help you can offer. As usual, e-mail direct
to me, unless you're sure the net needs to know. I will
post a summary if there is interest.
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