From: burger AT Mailer DOT Uni-Marburg DOT DE (Christian Burger)
Subject: Re: upper memory area
To: ajay_kamdar AT Warren DOT MENTORG DOT COM
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 19:27:13 +22311043 (CES)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: University of Marburg, Germany

ajay_kamdar AT Warren DOT MENTORG DOT COM writes:
> 
> I use EMM386 to enable the use of the upper memory area on my 386/25
> NEC PC. Of course, if I use EMM386 with the NOEMS switch, then programs
> using go32 will not run. But if I use the RAM switch on EMM386, then
> ...
> Is there such a program which you use? It seems that there is some
> program (umbdrvr) available on omnigate which probably does something
> similar to what I want. Does it really do that? Has any one used it?
> I have been unable to get that program myself and try it since I
> have never been able to (yet) get into omnigate for anonymous ftp.
> Are there other programs out there which fit the requirements?

umbdrvr can be obtained from any simtel or garbo mirror site.
Look for umbdr5xx.zip, current version is 5.22 (I think) but somehow
simtel got stuck at 5.20. If your chip set is supported umbdrvr uses
shadow ram to provide UMBs so that you don't loose any precious memory.
Whereas emm386 typically leeds to an overall performce degradation of
20%, performance even improves with umbdrvr, and you can do such nice
things as loading himem.sys high.
PS: I have no connection to the author of umbdrvr
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Christian Burger, Dept.of Phys.Chemistry, University of Marburg, Germany
e-mail: burger AT mailer DOT uni-marburg DOT de,  (Phone|FAX): +49(6421)28-578(9|5)