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#386 BB memory mess

    13-Nov-93 00:22:44
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