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From: jpl5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jay P Lessler)
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Subject: Re: 386 enhanced mode
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Date: 7 Nov 90 20:46:22 GMT
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In article <jcmorris.658004352@mwunix.mitre.org> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:
>
>In article <7017@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600bori@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin) writes:
>
>>I'm running Windows 3.0 on my 25mhz 386 with 2 megs, and I had some 
>>questions about this so-called enhanced mode.  When I type just "win"
>>at the command prompt, Windows throws me into STANDARD mode with 907k
>>RAM.  The manual says that with my configuration, it should default to
>>enhanced....
>>Is it normal for Windows not to default to enhanced mode? 
>
>Last time I looked the spec it said Win3 defaults to enhanced mode only 
>if you have a '386 (obviously) *and* you have 2M of memory *available to
>DOS*.  If DOS can't see at least 2M you get standard mode.
>
>Joe Morris

Are you sure about that?  I am running Windows on a '386 with **1.6M** of
memory.  Windows seems to be using disk space as extra (slow) ram, because
it boots up in '386 mode and shows about 4.5M free ram.

--Jay Lessler