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From: psc@lznv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,att.sys.pc6300
Subject: Re: Uses for Lotus/Intel Extended Memory
Message-ID: <1205@lznv.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 12:44:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 25 12:44:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 03:16:37 EST
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Keywords: I have 4 meg of extended memory. What can I use it for ?
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Summary: PC Tools



In article <1640@houxa.UUCP>, singhal@houxa.UUCP (S.SINGHAL) writes:
> Currently I am using my extended memory for:
> RAM disk (1.5M); disk cache (1M); print spooler (.5M)
> Rest of the 1 meg is sitting around idling just in case some program wants
> to use it as data space.
>... 
> My question to the net is this: Can anyone suggest more
> useful/efficient/fun ways of using my ocean of extended memory?  Which
> programs are out there which can help me get the most out of it?  I am
> especially interested in RAM resident programs which use only a tiny
> fraction of main memory and perform most of their lurking around in
> extended memory.
> Thanks a lot, Sharad Singhal

Well, you could always give one of the boards to me. . . .

No, huh?  Well, pick up a copy of PC Tools (version 3.x or higher) from
Central Point Software.  It's a nice disk utility:  moves, copies,
erases, unerases, backs up, restores, browses, and edits disks and
files.  It can be invoked as a "normal" program, or as a pop-up.  As a
pop-up, it can stay resident in expanded memory.  (Um, expanded is LIM
EMS, and extended is 286 protected mode, right?)  PC Tools lists for
$40; I've seen it for as low as $19.  (From Telemart; and a friend of
mine bought it through them.)