ajrossnz
Member
Hi all,
I recently received my dream machine, the 5162 XT/286. I had the Intel AboveBoard lying around waiting for a home, so this seemed to be the perfect machine to try it out on.
My 5162 has 640K onboard RAM, so when it starts up with the AboveBoard in it, the mem count gets to 1664KB. I read the documentation a number of times, but I still can't understand why the board allocates all but 384K to extended (XMS) RAM, rather than Expanded RAM.
I don't really know what one can do with a machine of 286 era with XMS (as opposed to EMS). Maybe run win/286 or something? Anyway, Even though it gives 1024K to XMS, it shows 100% of that being used. The 384K which is given to EMM/EMS/Expanded isn't really enough to be useful - at least for the software I want to use it with. I can't see anything in the documentation about saying
a) Why it configures XMS at all.
b) Why 100% of XMS is allocated
c) how to not use XMS and use all of the RAM for EMM.
I attach a screenshot of mem /c showing how XMS has 1MB of RAM, yet 0K free, whilst EMS has only 384K but has 100% free.
Any clues on how to use just EMS? And if any of you are using extended or expanded RAM for your low-end PCs (i.e. 286 and below), what do you use it for?
Cheers,
Alistair
I recently received my dream machine, the 5162 XT/286. I had the Intel AboveBoard lying around waiting for a home, so this seemed to be the perfect machine to try it out on.
My 5162 has 640K onboard RAM, so when it starts up with the AboveBoard in it, the mem count gets to 1664KB. I read the documentation a number of times, but I still can't understand why the board allocates all but 384K to extended (XMS) RAM, rather than Expanded RAM.
I don't really know what one can do with a machine of 286 era with XMS (as opposed to EMS). Maybe run win/286 or something? Anyway, Even though it gives 1024K to XMS, it shows 100% of that being used. The 384K which is given to EMM/EMS/Expanded isn't really enough to be useful - at least for the software I want to use it with. I can't see anything in the documentation about saying
a) Why it configures XMS at all.
b) Why 100% of XMS is allocated
c) how to not use XMS and use all of the RAM for EMM.
I attach a screenshot of mem /c showing how XMS has 1MB of RAM, yet 0K free, whilst EMS has only 384K but has 100% free.
Any clues on how to use just EMS? And if any of you are using extended or expanded RAM for your low-end PCs (i.e. 286 and below), what do you use it for?
Cheers,
Alistair