Niels Petersen wrote in a message to All:

 NP> Hi All

 NP> I have a 286/12 to setup, and have discovered that it has 1024k of
 NP> XMS. I have loaded Himem.sys and that has allowed me to load DOS

 NP> I have had no experience of 286's (I jumped from XT's to 386's) and
 NP> hoping someone can inform me as HOW I can get to use this 980k.

 NP> Using the 386 method of loading EMM386 only results in an error
 NP> message of "incorrect processor type"

Funny that. Have you got a copy of EMMANY?

 NP> I have tried 2 progs that the manual advises can use XMS memory,
 NP> but both these programs report that XMS memory is unanvailable.

There may be a set-up function within the proggies. One program that should
be able to use it is `vdisk'. FWIW, I have a copy of `Headroom' 2.0 which
will allow you to task-switch TSRs and applications into this space. You
can load 32 TSRs without using any conventional memory [other than the 50K
headroom takes]. The various versions of DRDOS will let you do something
similar.

Terry

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