Boot from DOS Free Mem: Is it 588k or 613k? Where's the XMS?

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From: Shaun Burnett
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:48

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	I'm booting DOS 5.0 from drive A under GA + SPP.  First of
	all, when I do a "mem" it reports 588k memory free.  I then
	run "mem /c" and it finds 627k memory free.  Which is it?  I
	think it's 588k free since I'm running a program that needs 
	+590k free and it doesn't run.  Why the discrepancy?

	Secondly, I have EMS, and XMS all set in the DOS Settings
	as non-zero values.  The OS2\MDOS files "himem.sys" and
	"emm386.sys" are loaded in the config.sys, however there's no
	XMS memory shown by "mem".  Where is it?  Does it only appear
	on demand?


Shaun Burnett		    |	"You can't survive on a new planet with a
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