#386 BB memory mess
13-Nov-93 00:22:44
Sb: #121342-#386 BB memory mess
Fm: Brian Bartlett 72037,570
To: don myklebust 71545,506
Don,
I had the same problem with MS-DOS 5.0 and my A2386SX; DeviceHigh and
LoadHigh didn't. When I upgraded to MS-DOS 6.0 (and just last week to
6.2), things started working just fine. What I think happened, and
somebody check me on this, is that EMM.SYS didn't support this feature.
EMM386.EXE in MS-DOS 5.0 wouldn't work on the BB, for me.
Well, that's all changed. I tried EMM386.EXE in MS-DOS 6.0 and it
worked just fine, thank you. I then tried Memmaker, and d*mn*d if that
didn't work as well. I just checked, and I've got 2.12 MB of stuff
stuffed into extended memory. Works fine, lasts long time.
BTW, if you do decide to upgrade, and you don't have either a
high-density 3.5 or 5 1/4 drive, use another machine to copy the files
onto low-density diskettes, copy these files from the low-density disks to
a sub-directory of your IBM partition, and run the installation program
(Setup). It never notices that the disks aren't there.
I hope this helps.
Brian
bjbart@watnxt01.ucr.edu