Texas Instruments 3000 WinSX User Manual

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Memory Device Drivers

The following four device drivers are provided to manage the TravelMate 3000 WinSX
memory:

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HIMEM.SYS - device driver, furnished on the C:\DOS directory, is an
extended memory manager that supervises the use of the computer's
Extended memory so that no two application programs can use the same
memory at the same time.

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EMM386.EXE - device driver, furnished on the C:\DOS directory,
supports LIM-EMS Expanded memory.

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RAMDRIVE.sys - device driver, furnished on the C:\DOS directory,
supports RAM disks in standard, Extended and Expanded memory.

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SMARTDRV.SYS - device driver, furnished on the C: \DOS directory,
for use with a hard disk and Extended or Expanded memory that
supports disk-caching to speed up reading from the hard disk.

Installing Device Drivers

To install a driver, add a DEVICE command line to your CONFIG.SYS file sililar to the
following, using the MS-DOS EIT utility or a word processor that saves text files in
ASCII format.

DEVICE=C:\DOS\QQQQ.QX [options]

You must then restart the computer to load the new - CONFIG.SYS settings and activate
the driver(s).

F-6 Configuring Memory

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