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- From: Trent A. Basarsky
- Subject: qemm & 640K barrier
- Message-ID: <BzJ2H5.7H@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: tab@iastate.edu
- Reply-To: tab@iastate.edu
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:29:28 GMT
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- I am having problems with a tip that was given to me in the book
- entitled "Windows 3.1 Secrets". On page 246 the author goes into
- exciting detail on how one can overcome the 640K barrier in a DOS
- session if the DOS application is only text based.
- Specifically, the author claims QEMM has a utility called VIDRAM.com
- that reallocates the memory area on your video card so it is now
- available as conventional memory. Sounds great! Indeed, if you
- run the utility from only the DOS prompt and stay at the prompt you do
- indeed grab another 96K of conventional memory! However, if you take
- the author's advice and try this technique in windows, it fails
- miserably. I keep getting error messages that state I can not successfully
- write to the video display. I have tried almost every permutation
- of the PIF file that I use to start this DOS session, but to no
- avail.
- The really annoying thing is that the author states that he routinely
- uses this approach to successfully run 1-2-3 and other DOS text
- applications.
- Has anyone else had success with this tip? I am running a 486-50
- with 16 MB ram, 2 SCSI drives, network connections, and a pile of
- device drivers to interface to a confocal microscope. I need as much
- conventional memory as I can eke out of this system. I am using WIN 3.1
- and Norton Desktop 2.0.
- I would be most interested to know if anyone else has attempted this
- tip, and if it does work, what the system configuration was. Please
- reply e-mail (and on this group for the benefit of others)
-
- Thanks
-
- Trent
- __________________________________________________________________
- Trent A. Basarsky Internet : tab@iastate.edu
- Signal Transduction Training Group
- Iowa State University
- Ames, Iowa 50011
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