Re: 4DOS any good to lower memory usage over command.com?

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From: Ralph Sims
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 14:13

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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.

I renamed 4DOS.COM to command.com and the kernel is only 256 bytes when
it is swapped out.  With a CGA monitor and a LOT of things loaded in
high memory, I have 689K free for DOS.

> What I want to do is replace command.com which I load before I run
> DesqView.  Will 4DOS do this and save me memory, yet still support dos
> system calls for applications?

I do this on a 386/25 with 8 megs of RAM, running a mail/news site with
a full feed and cron as a background task.

> SIMTEL20 directory).  Any other locations for picking up 4DOS?

You can download it from here.  It's in /public/4dos.  Or I can email it
to you.

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