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joonsong@monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Suk-Hyun Song) writes:
]In article <35010004@hpfinote.HP.COM> pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes:
]>... 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.

]I suppose this is all a matter of definition.
]Does a 640K computer have 640000 bytes or 655360?
]If you think 1K = 1024 bytes, then 600K = 614400 bytes.
]       Or if 1K = 1000 bytes, then 600K = 600000 bytes.

I guess you answered your own question here.  655360.

]Nobody is really wrong.  The question is, does DR-DOS 5.0 provide
]620*1000 bytes or 620*1024 bytes? 

Yes, somebody is wrong.  When dealing with computers in general,
k==1024.  When dealing with mathematics in general, k==1000.
When dealing with a mixture of both, it is the responsibility of
the speaker to denote what 'k' means.  In this case, we are
talking computers.  Any other use of 'k' is wrong!  If you are
talking to an end-user (someone not on the net and barely
computer literate by our standards) then K will probably be the
mathematical definition. 

I have a 386 Silicon Valley Computer, 4M memory, 104M disk with
30 buffer, 80 files, EMS, ANSI driver, CACHE (1M), Bus Mouse
driver, VGA, History v1.41, 26 drive letters and a 3000 byte
environment (SHELL=...), COUNTRY.SYS.

MAPMEM 2.9 from Turbopower shows 619440 bytes free conventional
memory.  It also shows the expanded memory usage:

block	 bytes	(Expanded Memory)
-----	 ------
    1	1048576
 free	1949696
total	3145628


DRDOS 5.0 MEM shows 

	  655,360 bytes, ( 640K), conventional memory
	  619,440 bytes, ( 604K), largest available block

	3,145,728 bytes, (3072K), extended memory
	3,145,728 bytes, (3072K), extended memory used
		0 bytes, (   0K), extended memory available

DRDOS 5.0 CACHE shows
1 drive cached in 62 track buffers
1023K bytes of Expanded Memory used
100% of CACHE in use with a 86% hit rate.

Now I think that this qualifies as being greater than 600K
(K==1024), and admittedly barely, but I do have a lot going on in
my environment too. 

advAPPOLOGIESance if this is inflamatory.  
--
Frotz
Disclaimer: I do not speak for this company this time, as my
remarks are potentially inflamatory.