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From: nadel@TAURUS.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Config Device Drivers
Keywords: Device,Drivers
Message-ID: <1323@taurus.BITNET>
Date: 9 May 90 13:19:45 GMT
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Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel
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  I was wondering if any of you noticed this too:

  I played around with my config file, trying to figure out why it consumed
55K when I only load drivers 12K long. Here are some results:

          1. No drivers                     16K
          2. FastBios driver alone          49K
          3. Everything but FastBios        54K
          4. Everything                     55K

  Simple calculation reveales that the FastBios driver takes 55K-54K = 1K.
So how come just loading it takes 49K-16K = 33K? It seems like just loading
one driver is enough to blow away your memeory, but many drivers don't do
more damage then one!

  Hope for an answer.