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- From: zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe (Hinze))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: How to use Entended memory effectively
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 01:36:26 GMT
- Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
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- References: <1992Dec22.231904.23584@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In <1992Dec22.231904.23584@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:
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- > I have 16 megs of memory on my system, and I want to use it to
- >run drivers and other programs there as well as have some left over for
- >programs that require extended/expanded memory. Does anyone know how to
- >use it effectively? I read the MSDOS manual and tried it, but it doesn't
- >really work. I was hoping I could make my system run really fast with 16
- >megs. btw, I have a 486dx 33. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!:)
-
- >Thanks,
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- The use of the extented memory depends on your applications, you want to run:
- A) Own selfwritten programs,
- B) The tons of Mega/Gigabyte of already existing SW.
-
- 1) Games,
- 2) DTP,
- 3) Sound-Computing,
- 4) ASCII-Text-Manipulation,
- 5) ... and whatever you can imagine ...
-
- I) Single-Tasking-Environment,
- II) Multi-Tasking-Environment
-
- a) Text-based environment (like VT100)
- b) graphical multiwindow menudriven mousecontrolled multimedia env.
-
- Let's regard some of the possible permutations:
- B-1-I-a) Install a 15MB Ramdisk as a tmp-drive.
- (Don't laugh: I often use this config to check new SW.)
- B-5-I-x) Install 1 MB Ramdisk +
- 14 MB as extended/expanded memory. (I prefer QEMM for this)
- B-5-II-a) dto. + Deskview (no experiences yet)
- or try to get LINUX ( " )
- B-5-II-b) like B-5-I-x) but you'll need EMM386 + Windows 3.1
- or take OS/2
- A-5-I-x) 1 MB Ramdisk + nothing-else
- try to find the PC-port of Gnu-C: dj*.zip
- All memory above 2MB can be used by YOUR application in
- (!) protected 32-bit-mode "nearly flat" model, accessing
- DOS with a PM-RM-interface.
- (Sorry, I didn't look at the grfix lib yet, no Soundblaster,
- no GUS, no MPU, ... but get the GNU-sources and write your
- own supervisor code. Debug32 IS included.)
-
- As far as we can see, there are to many possible configuration wishes
- that we cannot say, 'this and nothing else'. In NN I only read about
- memory managers. When I found djgpp, I saw that in spite of dos it's
- possible to use the memory in a "natural" manner, that means by your
- application without any "climbings" and without a 640KB-Barrier.
-
- I don't know whether this will be possible in Windows NT, too.
- But don't trust in MS, use SW instead.
-
- Harald
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