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I somehow got away with never adding this in my autoexec.bat. I don't remember much with regards to tweaking that stuff.. running memmaker.exe comes to mind. A

by verst 4y ago

I somehow got away with never adding this in my autoexec.bat. I don't remember much with regards to tweaking that stuff.. running memmaker.exe comes to mind. Also loading the CD driver in extended memory mode (MSCDEX.exe /E). Then there was himem.sys etc I would really love to see a good blogpost on all these things so I can finally learn what all these things actually did -- back then it was just trial an error. All the tweaks I had to make to free up "conventional memory" despite having a lot of RAM.

BearOso 4y ago
That environment variable just was there for software to read and auto-config your card. If the jumpers were default it wasn't needed. Most programs I remember just used it as a hint. There would usually be menu settings that were the definitive source.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
  It was more important for later jumperless PnP cards with a non-PnP BIOS.