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From: pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: non-Windows app memory limit?
Message-ID: <18950035@hpfinote.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Sep 90 17:57:04 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard CICD
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>   I try to run Turbo Pascal 5.0, giving it a nice generous allocation
>   (Turbo is a real memory hog), and Windows tells me there's too little
>
How much memory does TP 5.0 need ?

>   I am using HIMEM.SYS, but not EMM386.SYS (or any other expanded memory
>   manager).  The principal competitors for memory are PCNFS.SYS and the NDIS
>   ethernet drivers, and Windows' RAMdisk.
>
This looks like a really big crowd to me. All these network drivers are
real memory hogs. So, how much free memory below 640K do you have before
running Windows ? Take that number, minus a further 8K to 20K is what
you can have in a DOS session under Windows (assuming you are running
in enhanced mode). Doesn't matter how much VM or XMS or EMS you have.


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