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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: EMS and UMB's under EMM386?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.161055.14760@rei.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:10:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan14.160010.203462@uctvax.uct.ac.za> <1993Jan21.182428.4485@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
- Lines: 34
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- joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
-
- >>Could someone please tell me if I can allocate some memory to EMS
- >>(not all) and still have UMB's?
-
- >>CONFIG.SYS contains : DEVICEHIGH=EMM386 noems i=E000-EFFF
-
- >>What should I change the noems to?
-
- >Make sure you have the line : DOS=HIGH,UMB in your config.sys. Then you can
- >take out the noems i=e000-efff parameter. Replace it with the amount of
- >ems you need, e.g. :
-
- >device=himem.sys
- >device=emm386.exe 4096
- >dos=high,umb
- >...
-
- >..will load DOS in the HMA, will make 4096K (4mb) available as ems, and will
- >give you access to UMBs for devicehigh and loadhigh statements.
-
- NO! This will take away your UMB access because this tells EMM386 to
- only provide EMS. You need this command line:
-
- device=emm386.exe 4096 ram i=e000-efff
-
- Essentially this is the same as the original command line, only changing
- "noems" to "ram", and giving the desired size of EMS.
-
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