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ararghmail907nos...@not.at.arargh.com

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More options Jul 8, 4:22 pm

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From: ArarghMail907NOS...@NOT.AT.Arargh.com

Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:22:54 -0500

Local: Wed, Jul 8 2009 4:22 pm

Subject: Re: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM under MS-DOS 7.1

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On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:02:20 -0700 (PDT), a jones <81ajo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

<snip>

> What do I do to solve
>this issue, 'cos many games won't work without free XMS being
>available.

Probably best unplug about 3.5 gig of the memory. :-)

I thought is was a well known -feature- that Win98 doesn't really like
more than 512meg of memory, probably because the problem that you have
seen.

Note: -feature-: MS term for a bug/problem.
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Marcus Houlden

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More options Jul 8, 7:45 pm

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From: Marcus Houlden <s...@nukesoft.co.uk>

Date: 8 Jul 2009 23:45:42 GMT

Local: Wed, Jul 8 2009 7:45 pm

Subject: Re: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM under MS-DOS 7.1

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On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:22:54 -0500, ArarghMail907NOS...@NOT.AT.Arargh.com <ArarghMail907NOS...@NOT.AT.Arargh.com>
wrote the following to comp.os.msdos.misc:

> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:02:20 -0700 (PDT), a jones <81ajo...@gmail.com>
> wrote:

><snip>
>> What do I do to solve
>>this issue, 'cos many games won't work without free XMS being
>>available.

> Probably best unplug about 3.5 gig of the memory. :-)

> I thought is was a well known -feature- that Win98 doesn't really like
> more than 512meg of memory, probably because the problem that you have
> seen.

> Note: -feature-: MS term for a bug/problem.

Even documented at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253912/en-us

FWIW, I'm using the 32 bit version of XP on a machine with 4 GB of RAM for
work (I need to have Oracle, SQL Server and IIS on the same machine but they
use a lot of memory), and that doesn't allow you to use it all. It comes
back as something like 3.25 GB available. The fix would be the 64 bit
version of XP but that's not supported.

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bud

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More options Jul 9, 12:58 am

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From: dow...@webtv.net (bud)

Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:58:56 -0500

Local: Thurs, Jul 9 2009 12:58 am

Subject: Re: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM under MS-DOS 7.1

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Group: comp.os.msdos.misc Date: Wed, Jul 8, 2009, 1:02pm (CDT-2) From:
81ajo...@gmail.com (a jones)

script:

>…. What do I do to solve this issue, 'cos
>many games won't work without free XMS

-Try EMM386 from MSDOS 8.0 (WME)?

-Use FURD19L to make a 3.5 GB ramdisk to carry your swapfile?

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p...@nospam.demon.co.uk

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More options Jul 9, 12:20 pm

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From: p...@nospam.demon.co.uk

Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:20:20 +0000 (UTC)

Local: Thurs, Jul 9 2009 12:20 pm

Subject: Re: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM under MS-DOS 7.1

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In article <4a371a5b-4058-41d5-80bd-922a55092...@d36g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
81ajo...@gmail.com "a jones" writes:

> Thanks for the quick replies everyone! :)
[snip]
> Re. FURD19L, I'm sorry, but I Googled it and had no success finding
> it. :( What is this exactly and where can I find it?

It's Franck Uberto's (?) ramdrive for DOS -- the smallest and
most powerful ramdrive I've seen. I think it can be used with
W95/98 with some provisos (it's all in the doc), as are there
loading it in config.sys rather than autoexec.bat.

I have fu_rd19i.zip here, so I guess the 1.9L version is later
and better...

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Discussion subject changed to "XMSDSK (Was: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM...)" by Richard Bonner

Richard Bonner

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More options Jul 14, 8:09 am

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From: ak...@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner)

Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:09:54 +0000 (UTC)

Local: Tues, Jul 14 2009 8:09 am

Subject: XMSDSK (Was: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM...)

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p...@nospam.demon.co.uk wrote:

(Re: XMSDSK)

> It's Franck Uberto's (?) ramdrive for DOS -- the smallest and
> most powerful ramdrive I've seen.

*** I agree. I now use it exclusively on all my DOS systems.

> I think it can be used with
> W95/98 with some provisos (it's all in the doc),

*** There are restrictions but it can be used.

> as are there loading it in config.sys rather than autoexec.bat.

*** Yup. WIN 9x balks at CONFIG.sys loading of this program.

> I have fu_rd19i.zip here, so I guess the 1.9L version is later
> and better...
> Pete

*** I am currently using 1.9i with excellent results.

Richard Bonner
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More options Jul 15, 1:03 am

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From: dow...@webtv.net (bud)

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:03:21 -0500

Local: Wed, Jul 15 2009 1:03 am

Subject: Re: XMSDSK (Was: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM...)

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Group: comp.os.msdos.misc Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2009, 12:09pm (CDT+5) From:
ak...@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner)

script:

>>I have fu_rd19i.zip here, so I guess
>>the 1.9L version is later and better...

>*** I am currently using 1.9i with excellent results.

When I first saw it on Simtel years ago,… it was listed as 1.9l.
(Small 'L'). Might have been a typo.
Since then, I have only seen 'i'.

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Richard Bonner

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More options Jul 15, 8:17 am

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From: ak...@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner)

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:17:29 +0000 (UTC)

Local: Wed, Jul 15 2009 8:17 am

Subject: Re: XMSDSK (Was: EMM386 issues with 4GB RAM...)

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bud (dow...@webtv.net) wrote:
> (Richard Bonner said:)
> >*** I am currently using 1.9i with excellent results.
> When I first saw it on Simtel years ago,=85 it was listed as 1.9l.
> (Small 'L'). Might have been a typo.
> Since then, I have only seen 'i'.

> dowcom

*** It was a typo. The documention shows trailing lower-case letters.

Richard Bonner
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