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From article <1992Dec23.055024.23706@netcom.com>, by bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis):
> 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 ...
>>....  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.....
> ....
> 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....

A compromise is QEMM386 or something like that.  Microsoft's EMM386
doesn't use get the most out of your expanded memory.  For instance,
EMM386 sets aside some expanded memory for use as simulated expanded
memory.  Quarterdeck's QEMM386 doesn't do that - unused memory is
simultaneously available as either extended or expanded memory,
whatever your software is looking for.  It's also easier to use for
efficient high-loading of resident software.

> ....   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 ....

True.  There's no way to get around that limitation, but there are
better ways than Microsoft's to do the best you can within it.

I use DESQview/386 (which includes QEMM386 and DESQview on my 4 MB
386SX.  It gives me reasonably good memory management as well as
multitasking of DOS applications.  With a 16 MB 486, you can run a
multitasking OS (instead of a multitasking executive within a
single-tasking OS), but you might make your system slower.

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)