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- ID:ET Will DESQview use ExTENDed memory?
- Quarterdeck Technical Note
- by Dan Sallitt
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- Q: How do I get at the ExTENDed Memory in my AT?
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- DESQview uses 64K of extended memory in 80286 (AT) class machines
- to run DESQview's code in. This frees up 64K of additional conventional
- (below 640K) memory to run your programs in. If the remaining extended
- memory is converted into a RAM disk, DESQview can swap programs to
- that. Only the first 64K will be used by QEXT, all the rest will be
- for data.
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- ExTENDed memory IS NOT DOS MEMORY. DOS memory is the first 1024K
- of memory areas.
- ExTENDed memory ALWAYS starts at 1 Megabyte. Programs that access
- ExTENDed memory (VDISK, Disk Cache, Print Spooler, etc.) are not
- really running their program above 1024K, but rather are using the
- memory as "data storage" areas.
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- You may want to see if you can convert the memory into exPANDed
- memory; this kind of memory is much more useful to DESQview and other
- DOS programs as well.
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- Copyright (C) 1990 by Quarterdeck Office Systems
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