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- From: g89s9058@hippo.ru.ac.za (Shae-Guevara)
- Subject: Re: Using full 1 Mb RAM on 286
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.065603.17483@hippo.ru.ac.za>
- Keywords: 286 memory LASTBYTE.SYS
- Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- References: <1992Sep4.124052.18289@sniap.mchp.sni.de> <Bu76q9.F98@cs.vu.nl> <1992Sep8.112045.371@topaz.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.201947.24270@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 06:56:03 GMT
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- In <1992Sep9.201947.24270@en.ecn.purdue.edu> kwan@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep8.112045.371@topaz.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Peter.Breuer@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Peter Breuer) writes:
-
- >[stuff deleted]
-
- >>I reviewed lastbyte.sys for cbip.a a while back, and can certainly
- >>recommend it. I have a 386, and can't speak for 286 owners, but it
- >>works for me. It might be worth having a look at UMBDRVR.SYS too,
- >>in the same directories on archive sites as LASTBYTE.SYS -- I have just a
- >>suspicion that it might work for 286s, and someone will post if I'm
- >>wrong there ...
- >>
- >>peter <ptb@uk.ac.ox.comlab>
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- >I have a 286 laptop but I can't install The Last Byte on it. The program
- >said I have a VL82C202 chip set and I need to set a motherboard jumper
- >to make the extra memory available. I tried the EXCLUDE= option but to
- >no avail.
-
- >The 384K above the conventional 640k on my machine is remapped to the
- >top of extended memory (400000h - 460000h). So I believe a full 4M
- >is available, but 3M + 384K is in XMS. Now I am using HIMEM.SYS in
- >MSDOS 4.01 and no EMS, and I have about 530K conventional memory available.
-
- >Is it possible to load some of my device drivers (eg. mouse) or even
- >part of DOS into the 3M + 384K and still be able to use them? I have
- >read something about LOADALL, and that HIMEM.SYS and some other drivers
- >are using it. So I guess it may not be impossible. But I am not a
- >good enough hacker to do this myself ...
-
- >I am not sure if there is really a jumper on the motherboard of my
- >laptop. Even if there is, I think setting it would cause me to lose
- >some of the 4M.
-
- Huh? what is lastbyte.sys and where can I get it, it sounds
- very interesting.
-
- thanks
- barry
-
-
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- > / \ Yik-Yin Edwin Kwan
- > ( ) kwan@ecn.purdue.edu
- > / \
- > ( ^ ^ ) " Take me with you!
- > / ) .... I would like to immigrate! "
- > ( O )
- > \__ _/ (C) 1991 Edwin Kwan
- > ~~-----~~
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