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Article #2540Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-)
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 03:10
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 03:10
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In article <9129@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
|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
|
|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. :-)
Nope, it's not you, I can do it too. Peter's just wrong, again.
(wish I had a nickel for every time he's been wrong.)
--
Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-) Message-ID: <1990Aug18.031036.22177@amd.com> Date: 18 Aug 90 03:10:36 GMT References: <9K1N7K1@drivax.UUCP> <35010004@hpfinote.HP.COM> <9129@skinner.nprdc.arpa> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 17