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From: c60b-1eq@web-1c.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pcdos 5.0
Keywords: need info
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.060609.29735@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 06:06:09 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.033316.14074@uncecs.edu> aadm@uncecs.edu (Atkins D. Michael) writes:

> ... deleted text ...
>our software is very sensitive to tsr's and must have >572 of 
>free memory (low 640).  with the drivers and required configuration
>we are very close to that limit with no frills therefore have to
>use 3.3 as the overhead even without the shell in 4.1 puts us over 
>the limit ...
> ... deleted text ...

Have you considered loading the TSRs and device drivers into high
memory (i.e., memory above 640K)?  This is possible on a 386 (and
486, I assume) using software such as Quarterdeck's QEMM, assuming
you have at least 1M installed the system.

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