Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!mims-iris!tom From: tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Getting more than 640K for DOS Message-ID: <3251@watale.waterloo.edu> Date: 15 Aug 89 12:53:27 GMT References: <1989Aug14.083008.29461@cs.dal.ca> Sender: daemon@watale.waterloo.edu Reply-To: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Distribution: na Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 17 John Wrightwrites: > 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