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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 10:54:17 MET
- Sender: Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum <WIN3-L@UICVM.BITNET>
- From: "Verheulpen W." <waverheu@VUB.AC.BE>
- Subject: Re: Himem -vs- 16MB Limit
- In-Reply-To: <9301251844.AA08783@rc1.vub.ac.be>; from "Moore" at Jan 25,
- 93 12:37 pm
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- In a posting Moore writes :
- >
- >
- > Greetings.
- >
- > I'm running up against the 16MB XMS limit in HIMEM.SYS: I've got 20MB
- > RAM in my PC, but Himem (hence Windows) can only see 16MB of it, so
- > 4MB is being wasted.
- >
- > I've been told that there's an undocumented feature involving Himem
- > and Ramdrive, so that, if nothing else, I can use the 4MB above 16MB
- > for smartdrv and/or ramdrive (for setting temp=).
- >
- > Does anyone know how to do this? the solution is supposed to be
- > available via KnowledgeBase, but the stuff on the Developer's Net
- > CD-ROM isn't recent enough.
- >
- > Thanks for any help.
- >
- > --
- > Jim (moore@email.ncsc.navy.mil)
- >
- > Launcelot: Look, my liege!
- > (fanfare)
- >
- >
- Jim,
- I thought I saw something on himem.sys & >16Mb machines I will try to
- look it up. Isn't qemm386 not a solution here ? Although you have to
- use the EMB switch to tell qemm to use more than 12 Mb.
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