Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!drivax!frotz From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: DR-DOS ver 5.0 Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 18:24:44 GMT References: <1990Aug13.162833.19793@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> <15160001@hpspcoi.HP.COM> <073NSGP@drivax.UUCP> <1990Aug24.144927.18021@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> Sender: frotz@dri.com Reply-To: frotz@dri.com Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA Lines: 20 chung@surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung) writes: ]In article <073NSGP@drivax.UUCP> frotz@dri.com writes: ]>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 ? It uses what memory is available between 640K and 1M (actually the first segment above 1M) to load itself, drivers, system structures and TSRs. It also allows the user to specify whether to copy slow BIOS code to faster RAM... (I am a little unclear on what "shadow ram" means...;-( -- Frotz