On 12 Aug 98 at 13:02, Kees Stravers wrote:
X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
It is not a BIOS trick. The extra 128K appears in the upper memory area,
from D000 to EFFF. There was a special device driver available, USE!UMBS.SYS,
that turned this memory into UMB's if you were running DOS 5. Great for
parking mouse and network drivers in. The driver was written by a hobbyist
as a memory study project, it was available with the machine code source
so you could modify it for other computers. IIRC it should be on Simtel.
I also have a copy around here somewhere. I used to admin a network that
had lots of Philips XTs, NMS9100 and P3105 were the ones that had this
extra memory.
Kees
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It was a neat machine for an XT. I don't recall if I ever checked to see
if it
was using that extra memory or if it had any SW with it. My friend will be
delighted to know that he can squeeze out a little extra ram for memory-hungry
DOS programs.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com