What Next; Figure 3-7 Decision Tree - Siemens SIMATIC TI505 386/ATM User Manual

3.5

What Next?

Running the
386/ATM with
Third-party
Device Drivers and
Memory Managers
386/ATM Coprocessor User Manual
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After booting the system, you can either load development tools and begin
application development or load and run your application software.
Load development tools:
editors, compilers, etc.
Begin application
development
Run application
Before installing third-party system software, read the following guidelines.
When interface circuitry (for example, a communications card) is added to a
computer, it uses certain resources, such as memory ranges and interrupts,
to operate. In general, these resources may not be shared by multiple
devices.
System software, such as device drivers and memory managers, often need
to know exactly which resources are in use in the machine, or at least which
resources they may take for themselves.
The 386/ATM backplane interface uses the following resources:
•
Memory range C818:0000—C818:007F (128 bytes)
•
IRQ 10 (which in turn uses INT 72 hex)
Make sure that any third-party system software that you install on the
386/ATM does not try to use these addresses. Most such software can be
configured to avoid conflicts by adding command line variables to exclude
the use of the memory address range and software interrupts listed above.
Refer to your third-party software manual for details.
See the example CONFIG.SYS file for DOS installation on page 3-7 for
loading the 386EMM.SYS memory manager furnished with MS-DOS 5.0.
Installation Complete

Figure 3-7 Decision Tree

Loading System Software
Load application
package
Run application
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