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From: ardie@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Ardie Mack)
Subject: Re: emm386 and windows
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 16:40:58 GMT
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>On my PC I almost exclusively run windows. The only dos based application  
>I have is ProcommPlus.  In my config.sys I have emm386 loaded with the  
>option noems (no expanded memory). Following a thread in one of the comp  
>newsgroups, I read that it was no necessary to have emm386 loaded. Indeed,  
>in the manual, it says that emm386 is used to get expanded memory out of  
>extended memory. Since I have the noems option, it seems to me that the  
>emm386 device is useless in my case. 
>
>Should I use emm386 or should I remove it from my config.sys?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>-Eric

emm386 noems enables the system to use the "upper memory" between 640 and 
1024.  That's a good place for device drivers, DOS kernal, etc.
(Keep it in!)
