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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 (now *very* long, biased opinion;-)
Message-ID: <35010004@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Aug 90 18:33:04 GMT
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> / dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) /  4:08 pm  Aug 14, 1990 /
> 
> DR DOS most likely reclaims portions of memory between 640KB and 1MB that
> are not actually in use. While that entire portion is "reserved" only
> a small portion of it is actually used in most systems. There are MS DOS
> add ons that does the same thing. QRAM, 386Max, etc. are all memory 
> managers that reclaim this memory space. Some also move TSRs and
> network drivers to EMS freeing up the lower 640KB for applications 
> that can only run in low memory.
> 
While this is true, you'll never be able to get > 600 K free with MS-DOS
and one of QRAM, 386MAX etc. (unless you use hercules card). This is
because MS-DOS must reside in low memory.

Now, one question for DR DOS 5.0 advocates. Does the setup works with
MS Windows 3.0 running in 386 enhanced mode ?


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