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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!jenk
- From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
- Subject: Re: emm386 umb question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.055027.16882@microsoft.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 05:50:27 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov20.124841.7829@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Nov20.124841.7829@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> nwalczak@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick) writes:
- >When you use emm386 to load TSR's into upper memory blocks are you making use
- >of memory that is not otherwise usable by programs such as windows? Or do
- >umb's form part of extended memory?
-
- emm386 creates umbs and emulates ems using xms (extended) memory.
- So yeah, if you don't need more conventional memory and are using
- windows a lot, don't bother with umbs. You may not even need to
- keep the dos=high command, either (which tells ms-dos to load parts
- of itself, including software code pages if you have them and, if
- they'll all fit, the disk buffers, into the first 64K of extended
- memory).
-
- >I don't need vast amounts of conventional memory as most of my programs use
- >extended memory, I am merely interested in making the most memory possible
- >available to Windows.
-
- skip emm386 and dos=high.
-
- :>
-
- -jen
- I don't do ms-dos or windows support anywhere officially anymore.....
- microsoft doesn't speak for me and I don't speak for it.
-
- >
- >-Nick Walczak
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