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E.5 Utility Programs
Included with your driver diskette are three utility programs for the
Basic VGA: RAMBIOS.COM, ETM.EXE and VDIAG.EXE. They are
located in the UTILITY subdirectory. To copy these utilities to your
hard drive, run the install program on the Basic VGA driver diskette as
explained in E.2 (page 19). Choose Basic VGA Utilities when
prompted.
RAMBIOS.COM
RAMBIOS.COM is a terminate and stay resident (TSR) utility that can,
under certain conditions, speed up the text display by as much as 25%.
The best conditions to use RAMBIOS are when the application is text-
based and there is a lot of information to be displayed.
However, RAMBIOS takes up nearly 30k of system memory.
Depending on your system and applications, this can be an excessive
amount.
If you use Windows, Gem, Smalltalk or any of the many other
graphical user interfaces, DO NOT USE THIS UTILITY. It will do
absolutely nothing to increase performance, and still take up that 30k of
memory.
The decision to use or not use RAMBIOS depends on the system in
which the Basic VGA is installed, what types of applications are used,
and whether or not you are patient enough to perform several trial-and-
error installations of RAMBIOS to determine usability and performance
gain.
Drivers and Utilities
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