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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: more himem.sys facts
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Date: 29 Jul 90 13:55:10 GMT
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More info on the Win 3.0 distributed himem.sys:

Before using any program - or .sys file - that uses extended memory,
the bios call 0x88 that returns the amount of extended memory
gives the correct result. After using Windows or if the Win 3.0 smartdrive.sys
is used, it returns ** zero ** amount of extended memory. It or Win 3.0
is not releasing the extended memory it uses.

This proves that it is indeed a bug.

Microsoft: When will this bug be fixed?? How do we get fixes?
Didn't they TEST this?


Doug McDonald