Path: utzoo!attcan2!uunet!husc6!bbn!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!gas From: gas@ecsvax.UUCP (Guerry A. Semones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ALL CHARGECARD(memory mang.) Summary: Then again I may be wrong...386 software and the ALL... Message-ID: <5167@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 18:41:37 GMT References: <36300022@iuvax> <4249@killer.UUCP> <5165@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 22 I just talked to a friend whose company has informally tested the ALL ChargeCard. With EMS and Ansi drivers installed, etc., it leaves about 850k of RAM for DOS (instead of 640k). He also indicated that in THEORY you can run '386 software (ie Windows 386) on your '286 with this card. He said PC-MOS definately works, and I assume he meant PC-MOS 386. So maybe I was wrong, but I'll only believe it when I see it. This may be made MOOT if Intel would finally begin providing the fabled P9 chip that is said to be a 16-bit version of the 80386 chip. Its been said that with a wafer-board to make it pin compatible with the '286 chip's pins, that it can be a drop-in replacement for the 80286. How about that? Your old AT with a 16-bit '386, I could live with that. -- Guerry A. Semones BITNET: drogo@tucc.BITNET Information Services USENET: gas@ecsvax.UUCP Duke University My views are despairingly mine only. Talent Identification Program "We ain't gifted, we just work here."