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- From: bevans@mta.ca
- Subject: Re: Expanded memory emulation under MS Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.021031.21491@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada
- References: <1992Aug18.121400.21773@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:10:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.121400.21773@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ccaajrl@ucl.ac.uk (Jack Levy) writes:
- >I am running a non-Windows application (actually it's Quattro Pro) which
- >can use EMS expanded memory. On a 386 machine, Windows provides its own
- >EMS emulation, so all works well.
- >
- >However, at the same time I want to install EMM386 to move some TSR's into
- >high memory. I don't want to waste 64K on an EMS page frame, so I use
- >the NOEMS option. This seems to have the unfortunate side-effect of
- >switching off Windows' own EMS emulation. Is there any way round this, or
- >have I misunderstood the whole problem?
-
- I had the same problem and found the same situation... you can't have both
- expanded memory managers running at the same time. Some people said:"Buy QEMM
- (or some other EMM)" but I found that by including upper memory areas which
- EMM386.EXE missed I could load lots of TSRs high even with the 64K page frame.
-
- I used: device=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM i=b000-b777 i=e000-efff M9
-
- This added 96K of upper memory and the M9 switch put the 64K page frame at
- e000-efff so I had 32K more than before which was enough for my needs. Putting
- the page frame at "the end" of upper memory maximized the size of contiguous
- memory which was helpful because at one point I had 32K of UMBs free and a 19K
- driver I wanted to load high but the UMB was split 17/15 and useless for me.
-
- My 2 pennies worth.
-
- Bill
-