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From: lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Getting more than 640K for DOS
Message-ID: <1989Aug14.083008.29461@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 14 Aug 89 08:30:08 GMT
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Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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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.  The documentation is
*very* vague and doesn't explain to him or me just what sort of
physical memory situation you must have (since I assume you must
have more than 640K *physical* RAM in your machine).  It doesn't
really explain anything and to make a long storey short, we can't
get the pgm working.

I have seen programs similar to this in the SIMTEL archives, etc.
but they all require you to have EMS 4.0. My friend has a 286 with
640K base mwmory and 384K extended (1 Meg total).

Would anyone be familiar with this package and kindly explain how,
and under what circumstances, it works.  Would anyone have a similar
package that could be used by friend send it along.

Many thanks.

John Wright      //////////////////     Phone:  902-424-3805  or  902-424-6527
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