On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:58:01 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:

> L.D. Best wrote:

>> Clarence,

>> I've seen mention of dropping the page frame, and wondered about why UBM
>> should be selected when NOUMB is the default.

>> But when I go to Manifest it clearly shows that the page frame 64K is
>> placed *above* the 1Mb portion of memory.  So getting rid of the page
>> frame wouldn't make any addition memory available for loading EPPPD
>> high.

> Hi L.D.;

> I think you must have misinterpreted the Manifest display.  It definitely
> should go above the standard 640k low memory barrier but it must be placed
> in the first meg.

 Clarence,
 Right you are.
This out put from Qemm's "manifest" should clear thins up.

    Quarterdeck                                                            
      MANIFEST  
                                        
 Memory Area   Size  Description        
 0000 - 003F     1K  Interrupt Area     
 0040 - 004F   0.3K  BIOS Data Area     
 0050 - 006F   0.5K  System Data        
 0070 - 0286   8.4K  DOS                
 0287 - 1E0A   110K  Program Area       
 1E0B - 9FFE   519K  [Available]        
 9FFF - 9FFF   0.1K  Unused             
 ���Conventional memory ends at 640K����
 A000 - AFFF    64K  VGA Graphics       
 B000 - B7FF    32K  High RAM           
 B800 - BFFF    32K  VGA Text           
 C000 - C0FF     4K  ROM                
 C100 - CAFF    40K  High RAM           
 CB00 - CBFF     4K  Adapter RAM        
 CC00 - E9FF   120K  High RAM           
 EA00 - EBFF     8K  ROM                
 EC00 - FBFF    64K  Page Frame         
 FC00 - FEFF    12K  High RAM           
 FF00 - FFFF     4K  System ROM         
     HMA        64K  First 64K Extended 
-------------------------------------------


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