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The Shadow <meljimo@teleport.com> wrote in article
<544kq9$mv7@nadine.teleport.com>...
> stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) wrote:
> >In article <01bbbbcd$f2843120$beecadce@jscannell> "Jim Scannell"
<scannell@concentric.net> writes:
> >>Anders Riisager <a.riisager@lycke.lhc.se> wrote in article
> >><3266736a.1909742@nntpserver.swip.net>...
> >>> Andrew@prsbld.demon.co.uk (Andrew Beck) wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> >
> >>> >Can anybody help, do I need to return the 32Mb simms and get one's
> >>> >with less chip on them? Or is there any other solution or cause of
> >>> >this problem.
> >>> >
> >>> >Thanks in Advance.
> >>> >Andrew Beck
> >>> 
> >>> Well, you se I�m also have Windows NT 3.51 in my computer but my NT
> >>> reports all 98 MByte and  work also whit 98 Mbyte ? There are my
> >>> questian, I don't believe I have a problem whit the motherboard here.
> >>> Only DOS 6.22 Reports 65  Mbyte. 
> >>> Ore ?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks before 
> >>> Anders Riisager
> >>> 
> >>I think that is the limit of DOS.
> >
> >NOPE, DOS is limited to memory below 1MB(usually 640KB)!  Any memory
above that 
> >is accessed through drivers.  BESIDES, WIN NT does NOT use DOS!
> >
> >Steve
> >
> 
> Well, I guess that as far as basic DOS is concerned, you are right. But 
> in the sense that these people are talking about, DOS should be able to 
> see up to 65 (64MB). Check it out....from the dos prompt, type mem. 
> Notice that the memory below 1mb is listed, and also all the memory above

> 1 meg....what you can do with all that extra memory is another matter, 
> but dos can see it.
> 
> Other OSs that can see 64megs, but no more are Win30, and 31. OS/2, Win95

> and WinNT versions below 3.50.
> 
> NT3.51 and I think 3.50 can see memory above 64megs. This all has to do 
> with the way in which the O/S asks the systm how much memory there is. 
> One of the Int15 functions I think, though I'm not sure of that.
> 
> There are some ways around this in dos/win31. If you use a good memory 
> manager like QEMM, you can access the memroy above 64megs as EMS memory, 
> but that is about it....The Shadow Knows...
> 
> 
Thank you. I was waiting for that. However, Win95 can see as much memory as
you throw at it (up to 4GB).


Jim Scannell
Madison, Wisconsin
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