Upgrading an Intel Inboard/386 with ParrotyRAM – 4 MB XMS & EMS for Real Multitasking!

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Upgrading an Intel Inboard/386 with ParrotyRAM – 4 MB XMS & EMS for Real Multitasking!

There's a Parroty in my port and you're all welcome

Als Geek Lab

Jun 15, 2025

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Ready to see an IBM-compatible XT leap from 640 KB to a mighty 4 MB? In this episode I drop a ParrotyRAM board onto my Intel Inboard/386 upgrade card, then wrestle with DOS memory managers to coax EMS and XMS out of the extra RAM. With DesqView in one corner and Microsoft Windows in the other, I try to prove that an ’80s PC can genuinely multitask witho…

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