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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview 386 Problems
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Date: 7 Aug 89 20:16:07 GMT
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In article <2520@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
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>You have a complete mis-understanding of what multi-tasking software will
>do for you.  If you are thinking that you can make DV give VP more than
>640K to work with, forget it.  

Actually, DV/386 can give more than 640K to programs, but not much, and probably
not to someone using VP.  I have a Hercules clone card, and since it doesn't use
the memory between addresses A0000 and AFFFF, DV's QEMM gives this to programs.
After loading drivers etc, programs typically get about 650K.  But I doubt anyone
would use Ventura on a Hercules card.

Duncan Murdoch