Re: Can Mathematica 1.2 (MS-DOS) run with himem.sys (any Version) ?

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From: Fred Hucht
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 12:43

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>In <1991Jun9.013619.5924@nntp-server.caltech.edu> antonyc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Antony Chan) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun06.132257.801@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> hm292hu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Fred Hucht) writes:
>>Can I tell HIMEM.SYS not to eat all extended memory ?
>well, with the ms-dos 5.0 himem.sys, you CAN tell it not to eat
>all extended memory by specifying /int15=xxxx where xxxx is the 
>amount of extended memory (in kb) to leave for int15 access (what
>mathematica uses).  also, you'll notice that mathematica will run
>in ems, so you can run emm386 on top of himem.sys and use mathematica
>that way.  only problem with that is that real mode programs (like
>djgpp) will crap out with emm386.

Thanks, this is what I want. I tried it and it works...

Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany
email: fred@hal9000.uni-duisburg.de

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From: hm292hu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Fred Hucht)
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Subject: Re: Can Mathematica 1.2 (MS-DOS) run with himem.sys (any Version) ?
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