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Article #2520Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-)
From: Sean Malloy
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 14:09
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 14:09
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In article <35010004@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
>While this is true, you'll never be able to get > 600 K free with MS-DOS
>and one of QRAM, 386MAX etc. (unless you use hercules card). This is
>because MS-DOS must reside in low memory.
How strange -- with my 386/25 with SVGA, I use QEMM-386 and LOADHI to
shove everything I can into high memory; using 4DOS as the primary
command processor, MAPMEM reports 608K free; with COMMAND.COM, it
reports 604K free. But since I can't get more than 600K free, I _must_
be hallucinating. :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!nprdc!malloy From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-) Message-ID: <9129@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Date: 17 Aug 90 14:09:10 GMT References: <9K1N7K1@drivax.UUCP> <35010004@hpfinote.HP.COM> Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego Lines: 18