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From: swh@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Harrold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Can HIMEM.SYS co-exist with VDISK.SYS
Message-ID: <-286529991@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 15:34:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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Can HIMEM.SYS co-exist with VDISK.SYS?

The HIMEM.SYS driver supplied with (I think) Windows/286 allows you to use
the first 64KB of extended memory (less 16 bytes) as part of conventional
memory so that you can effectively extend the 640KB boundary by 10%.  A
number of memory-hog applications are now available to make use of this
"free" memory space.  This is all well and good.

BUT, if I use the VDISK.SYS driver to create a RAM-disk in the remaining
space on my extended memory card, will I suffer any unhappy consequences?
Will VDISK try to access the same memory space that HIMEM uses?

In a nutshell, can HIMEM.SYS and VDISK.SYS co-exist in a 286 machine?

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