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- TO: STAC CUSTOMERS DATE: 02-28-91
- TIME: 16:52
- CC:
- SUBJECT: Loading Stacker high with QEMM
- PRIORITY:
- ATTACHMENTS:
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- There are a couple of other things to watch for.
-
- Loading STACKER high requires about 10k more during the load than is consumed
- by the "resident" portion. Try giving LoadHi a /L switch. This tells LoadHi
- to use the Largest available area in hi memory. Often there will be
- several "holes" in hi ram which will be made available if QEMM.sys is given a
- simple RAM switch. If an area is used that is too small, the loadhi will
- crash and burn!
-
- Also, on the device=QEMM.sys line, make the last parameter a "PAUSE". This
- will cause QEMM.sys to pause during it's install. If the user hits ESCAPE at
- that time, QEMM.sys isn't loaded and therefore the loadhi won't work. This
- avoids the possibility of the Config.sys hanging the system and having to
- grab a boot floppy to get the system to boot.
-
- If the system hangs during boot, simply re-boot and hit escape at the QEMM
- pause. QEMM won't load and the system won't hang. The config.sys can then
- be edited and the whole thing tried again.
-
- Once the user has everything working and to his/her liking, remove the PAUSE
- from the end of the device=QEMM.sys line and the system will boot without
- operator intervention.
-
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- SUBJECT: Loading Stacker high with QEMM
- PRIORITY:
- ATTACHMENTS:
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- I have a handy hint stemming from my struggle with installing QEMM on my
- system.
-
- The hint is this: when someone calls you to say that they can't load Stacker
- high, ask them if they are using the NOEMS switch on the QEMM line in
- config.sys. The NOEMS switch discards the ability to emulate the old
- Expanded Mode Standard (EMS) saving 64k of high memory which would have been
- devoted to the page frame. Easily enough extra to load Stacker high.
-