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ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:


>	I have 16 megs of memory on my system, and I want to use it to
>run drivers and other programs there as well as have some left over for
>programs that require extended/expanded memory. Does anyone know how to
>use it effectively? I read the MSDOS manual and tried it, but it doesn't
>really work. I was hoping I could make my system run really fast with 16
>megs. btw, I have a 486dx 33. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!:)

>Thanks,



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The best that I've been able to determine is to get a real OS - UNIX, OS/2, 
NT. The problem is that DOS can't address beyond 1MB. There is supposedly 
384K between 640K and 1MB for loading things "high", but this area is 
also used for display memory, BIOS, and mapping some boards such as 
SCSI and/or networking. I've got a mixture of drivers that could load 
outside of the 640K area, but some only will load into expanded memory 
and to emulate expanded memory uses up 64K of the upper memory area, so 
thes rest of my drivers have less room than before. It seems like a 
no win situation. I'm thinking of OS/2, but I don't think my 
network drivers will work.

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