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From: chung@surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.144927.18021@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
Date: 24 Aug 90 14:49:27 GMT
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In article <073NSGP@drivax.UUCP> frotz@dri.com writes:
>dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) writes:
>
>] DR DOS most likely reclaims portions of memory between 640KB and 1MB
>] that are not actually in use. ...  Some also move TSRs and network
>] drivers to EMS freeing up the lower 640KB for applications that can
>] only run in low memory. 
>
>Actually, the sweet thing about DR DOS is that it moves itself up there in
>addition to the other things like TSRs, drivers, etc...

Does this mean that DR DOS requires extra memory between 640K and 1MB (i.e.
those used by shadow ram) in order to relocate drivers etc. ? Can it relocate
everything to extended memory above 1 MB ?

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