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From: mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Need More DOS Memory!
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Date: 18 Feb 91 09:25:34 GMT
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noring@netcom.COM (Jon Noring) writes:

>As most people eventually face, I'm finding that many of my programs won't
>run on my pc because of the 640k limitation of DOS.  Of course, I've been
>playing games of rebooting with a downsized autoexec.bat file (to remove
>stuff that I don't need), but find this a pain.  One of my applications
>will not run properly even when I strip everything out to the bare minimum.

>I've heard of software that will utilize the higher memory available and
>move stuff there (I have 8 megs used mainly for Windows 3.0 when I run it).

>Could anybody out there summarize to me what software is the best to use,
>and other things I should be aware of.   I've heard that Quarterdeck has some
>good software to do this (Deskview?).   BTW, I have a 386-33 machine with
>8 megs and am running MS-DOS 4.01.  Thanks.

>Jon Noring

	My first question is with 8megs of RAM what the hell are you running
DOS for ?  Secondly,  I am not sure if you have tried it yet, but Quaterdeck
has a real fine memory manager out called QEMM386.SYS, and it does just about
everything it appears you are looking for.  Loading such nice things as 30k of
buffers into expanded memory, loading .SYS drivers into high memory, and all
sorts of other nice nifties.  Last I used it, I was running a 386/25 with 4meg
and about 110k in DOS/TSR functions.  It allowed me into the 580+k available.
Don't freak out and wonder how complicated it is to load all this.  They also
give a nice little program that does it for you, parsing your autoexec.bat and
config.sys files, coming up with the best memory solutions possible.  try it.
you'll like it.

	Craig Nelson (mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu)