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From: diamant@hpfclp.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: >640K
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Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 19:24:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  9 19:24:27 1987
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> -Fellow posters,
>      Can anyone tell me how to expand the memory in a PC beyond 640K?  I have
> a regular video board requiring 16K and an 8K BIOS.  No other peripherals
> [Crequire addressable memmory.  By my calculations, that leaves me with 1000K.
> I have a clone with 640K installed on the motherboard.  Can I expand with
> piggy-backing?  If so, how do I let DOS know that I have the extra memory
> installed?  Thanks in advance for responses.
>                                        -Darren Friedlein
> ...ihnp4!ethos!darren

First of all, I thought that the standard video (CGA unless you are talking
monochrome) was 32K, and my understanding was that the system ROM took 64K.
At any rate, there is a company that makes a board called MAXIT that allows
use of both the contiguous memory about 640K (up to graphics memory) and the
non-contiguous area above the graphics memory (unused normally).
Look in the January Byte for an add.  I don't remember the name of the company.
Basically, they go through some contortions to make programs that don't know
anything about this board still work; memory resident programs such as
RAM disks can run in non-contiguous memory (without knowing that they are), and
any program can use the extra 96K contiguous memory above the 640K max.

John Diamant
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