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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