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From: ersys!davem@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Question: only 639K available to DOS?
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Date: 16 Feb 91 19:21:03 GMT
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Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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xaandrews@levels.sait.edu.au writes:

> Gudday,
>  
>         Anybody come across the problem of only having 639K available to DOS?
> The DOS MEM command reports only 654 366 bytes available instead of 655 360.
>  
>         My machine is an IBM AT compatible '386 with 640K conventional
> memory (supposedly) and 2048K extended. It has a Phoenix 80386 ROM BIOS PLUS,
> Version 1.10 03. It runs MS-DOS 4.01 operating system.
>  
>         Any info would be appreciated.
>  
>                                 David Hichens.
>                                 ==============

  
  Some BIOSes grab the top 1K for use as stack space or some such.  This
is usually configurable with its SETUP.


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