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From: tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Getting more than 640K for DOS
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Date: 15 Aug 89 12:53:27 GMT
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John Wright  writes:
> A friend of mine has a package called 704K.ARC or some such which 
> puports to give you 704K of DOS accessable RAM on a monochrome or
> CGA system by somehow making real memory appear at locations A000-AFFF 
> which aren't needed unless you have a VGA/EGA.  [...]
> I have seen programs similar to this in the SIMTEL archives, etc.
> but they all require you to have EMS 4.0.

A recent PC Magazine mentioned a package called 386-To-The-Max or
something like that, which allows you to load your TSRs in high memory.
Does anybody know anything about this package?  704K.ARC won't do me
any good since I have VGA...

					\tom haapanen
"now, you didn't really expect          tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu
 my views to have anything to do        watmims research group
 with my employer's, did you?"          university of waterloo