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In <1992Dec22.231904.23584@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> 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,


The use of the extented memory depends on your applications, you want to run:
A) Own selfwritten programs,
B) The tons of Mega/Gigabyte of already existing SW.

1) Games,
2) DTP,
3) Sound-Computing,
4) ASCII-Text-Manipulation,
5) ... and whatever you can imagine ...

I) Single-Tasking-Environment,
II) Multi-Tasking-Environment

a) Text-based environment (like VT100)
b) graphical multiwindow menudriven mousecontrolled multimedia env.

Let's regard some of the possible permutations:
B-1-I-a) Install a 15MB Ramdisk as a tmp-drive.
         (Don't laugh: I often use this config to check new SW.)
B-5-I-x) Install 1 MB Ramdisk +
         14 MB as extended/expanded memory. (I prefer QEMM for this)
B-5-II-a) dto. + Deskview (no experiences yet)
          or try to get LINUX ( " )
B-5-II-b) like B-5-I-x) but you'll need EMM386 + Windows 3.1
          or take OS/2
A-5-I-x) 1 MB Ramdisk + nothing-else
         try to find the PC-port of Gnu-C: dj*.zip
         All memory above 2MB can be used by YOUR application in
         (!) protected 32-bit-mode "nearly flat" model, accessing
         DOS with a PM-RM-interface.
         (Sorry, I didn't look at the grfix lib yet, no Soundblaster,
          no GUS, no MPU, ... but get the GNU-sources and write your
          own supervisor code. Debug32 IS included.)

As far as we can see, there are to many possible configuration wishes
that we cannot say, 'this and nothing else'. In NN I only read about
memory managers. When I found djgpp, I saw that in spite of dos it's
possible to use the memory in a "natural" manner, that means by your
application without any "climbings" and without a 640KB-Barrier.

I don't know whether this will be possible in Windows NT, too.
But don't trust in MS, use SW instead.

Harald

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