Starlan 3.0 and 6300 Plus

~XT6510300~Frank McGee~C23~L25~6326~ fmcgee at cuuxb.ATT.COM
Thu Aug 31 03:05:27 AEST 1989


In article <15572 at netsys.netsys.COM> len at netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
>I have been told that it's possible for the latest version to
>make use of extended or expanded memory to load into,thus freeing
>up all the main dos ram.. Is this true, and what are the requirements?
>Thanks a bunch.

This is true, but you have to have LIM (expanded) memory.  The ISO (3.0 or
better) Starlan client software will allow you to load most of the software in
expanded memory (about 60k) with a small program stub in the 0-640K area.  The
buyback is about 60k in most cases.  On the Plus, you'd need a special memory
card that supports LIM to do this.

Note that this doesn't buy you much on concurrent client servers, the entire
server portion must be loaded into the area between 0 and 640k, which doesn't
leave you much for MSDOS applications.

-- 
Frank McGee, AT&T
Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support
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