On Wednesday, February 17, 1993 at 7:26:22 PM UTC-8, Attilla Danko wrote:

In article <1lutmt...@uwm.edu>, ant...@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:

In article <1993Feb17.1...@bnr.ca> da...@bnr.ca (Attilla Danko) writes:

I have a Gateway 2000 Handbook sub-laptop with the extra 2M memory board.

I use HIMEM.SYS as the XMS provider and I use RAMDRIVE
with the /E option to place the ramdisk in extended memory. I use the FC >dos command to compare the files. My hand book will crash during the file
compare. Sometimes the first file compare will succeed. However, my handbook

I'm surprised that HIMEM.SYS and extended memory work at all on the machine. The HandBook has a Chips & Technologies 8680 processor in
it. As far as I know this processor is not Intel 80286 compatible and doesn't have A20 or protected mode.

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Perhaps. But Gateway 2000 belives that HIMEM.SYS should work on a
Handbook:
1. When one buys a Handbook with the 2meg memory extension
installed, it arrives pre-configured with HIMEM.SYS.
2. When I described my problem to a droid on the GW2000 tech-help
line, he repeated my testcase (i.e. FC large, identical
files in XMS ramdisk, using HIMEM and RAMDRIVE). He manually
FC-ed about 10 times with no problems. He *said* he was
using a Handbook for the test.

Is GW2000 very confused, or do other Handbooks not have this
weirdness?
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good computer

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