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Article #9392Re: 4DOS any good to lower memory usage over command.com?
From: Noam Mendelson
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 08:47
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 08:47
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In article <gsisson.672201290@beowulf> gsisson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Glenn Sisson) writes: >I read that 4DOS is a command.com replacement and only occupies 5K of >conventional memory when you load other applications over it. Sounds >too good to be true. Not really, since 4DOS occupies ~4K of resident memory while COMMAND.COM occupies ~5K (unless you have XMS, in which case you can decrease the resident size of 4DOS further). 4DOS is *not* a replacement for DOS-- just a replacement for the command line interpreter (and an excellent replacement at that). -- +==========================================================================+ | Noam Mendelson ..!ucbvax!web!c60b-1eq | "I haven't lost my mind, | | c60b-1eq@web.Berkeley.EDU | it's backed up on tape | | University of California at Berkeley | somewhere." |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!agate!e260-1a.berkeley.edu!c60b-1eq From: c60b-1eq@e260-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: 4DOS any good to lower memory usage over command.com? Message-ID: <1991Apr21.084713.27530@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 08:47:13 GMT References: <gsisson.672201290@beowulf> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 16