Re: use video ram as system ram ?

From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 16:06:00 EST


Darrell Wright <beached@lakeheadu.ca> wrote:
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>most applications. I'm surprised this didn't get eaten into windows as a lot
>of good utilities did seeing as its memory usage is so high.

In a sense, it did... EMM386 can do this. But it is done by borrowing the
memory used for graphics modes --- commonly one was restricted to text or CGA video. Not going to fly
for Windows, obviously....

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brandon s. allbery kf8nh
carnegie mellon university
ece computing facilities

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