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From: mhr@ccicpg.UUCP (MHR {who?})
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Subject: Re: How much space does 4DOS take?
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Date: 19 Feb 91 00:05:40 GMT
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In <91047.222138IO92203@MAINE.BITNET>, IO92203@MAINE.BITNET writes:
> 
>     Transient swapping in 4Dos only works if you have a hard disk...
> otherwise, 4Dos takes up quite a lot of memory...
>  
Not quite - you can also swap to EMS or XMS, if you have one (or both)
of them, too.

It is important to remember here that 4DOS is a COMMAND.COM
_replacement_, and it only takes up about an extra 20k (I think),
maximum, if the transient portion can't be swapped.  I think it's worth
it for the extra capabilities you get.

My only problem with 4DOS has been that it doesn't quite agree with
Windows 3.0/386 - for some reason I have more problems running the
latter than under DOS 3.3.  Still, I have found a way around that, since
I do not use Windows for everything yet.

Regards.

-- 
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