Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:4747 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:5778 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!santra!saha.hut.fi!c37189h From: c37189h@saha.hut.fi (Harri "Haba" Suomalainen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dcom.lans.novell,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 soon? Message-ID: <1991Jan23.212903.5281@santra.uucp> Date: 23 Jan 91 21:29:03 GMT References: Sender: news@santra.uucp (Cnews - USENET news system) Reply-To: c37189h@saha.hut.fi (Harri "Haba" Suomalainen) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, FINLAND Lines: 19 In article jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) writes: >The only thing that I've heard is that many of the DOS internal commands are >now external executables. Not true at all. > Also, that the DOS can manage more than 640kb. >Is this true or was someone pulling my leg? DOS 5.0 can swap command.com to extended/expanded memory. Also programs can be loaded to upper memory block (ie. to segment at 1M..1M+64k) like with qemm's loadhi. Anyway, swapping command.com and loading devices and programs to upper memory reduce memory consuption a lot. They have made the DOS smaller as well. Something like 600..625kb free is quite reasonable, not a dream any more! -hs -- Harri Suomalainen c37189h@saha.hut.fi haba@otax.tky.hut.fi