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- Short: Disable faulty memory. Version 1.1
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- BlockMem 1.0 / SmartBlock 1.0 - 5 Neall Verheyde / 1993 Pyxis Software
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- What it is
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- Blockmem is a small utility which takes two memory addresses, and
- allocates all of the memory between them, preventing the system (and
- OS friendly programs) from using that area of memory.
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- SmartBlock is a program very similar to blockmem. It performs exactly
- the same operation, but is not restricted to contigious memory chunks
- (ie, it "looks" for unused memory within the specified address, and
- allocates around memory which is already used). If the memory is
- already used, you can be fairly certain that it's not faulty.
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- Why???
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- If you have bad memory in your computer, and can't get it fixed
- immediately, it's much better to simply block the memory off from the
- OS, rather than hoping that a program won't try and grab it for itself
- and cause the system to blow up.
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- Pyxis Software is:
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- Neall Verheyde verheyde@sfu.ca
- - Computer Science
- Simon Fraser University
- British Columbia, Canada
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- David Griffiths dgriff@unixg.ubc.ca
- - Television Broadcasting
- British Columbia Institute of Technology
- British Columbia, Canada
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- Other Pyxis Utilities:
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- ClockTweek - Helps correct periodic errors in the system clock.
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- Purge2.0 - Deletes files in a way that they are "unrecoverable".
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- MemWatch - Helps find program memory loss.
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- NetUtils - ParNet/SerNet chat, and remote reboot.
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- ReqInter - Reqtools.library interface for HiSoft BASIC.
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