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From: chung@Ainur.ee.surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DR-DOS ver 5.0
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Date: 13 Aug 90 16:28:33 GMT
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Hi,

DR advertised that DR-DOS ver 5 can give you >620K. But does it apply to any
machine configurations? I would like to know whether it will help in the
following two cases:

1) We need to run programs that require more than 600K of base memory. The
   machine is an *OLD* IBM AT (6MHz type) with a Everex EMS memory board and
   a EGA card (I think it only has the min. amount of video memory installed).
   Currently we have to boot on a MSDOS ver 2.11 disk when using these programs.

2) A PC clone with C&T chipset, Herc. mono, and 2 MB memory. It has a BICC
   ethernet card, and running PC-NFS. The trouble is only 470K of base memory is
   left for application. We would like to push some of the network drivers
   out of the base memory area.

Has anybody got experience with DR-DOS?
Are there any other better alternatives?

Thanks in advance.

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