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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stripped down DOS?
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Date: 18 Apr 91 21:46:33 GMT
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valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty) writes:

>bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright) writes:


>>Is there a stripped down version of DOS that one can use to obtain as
>>much free memory as possible?  I'm sure there must be such a thing,
>>but I really don't know very much about DOS machines (I'm posting this
>>for a friend).  Thanks alot,
>> BBB

>Sure.  Get DOS 1.1 (complete with commented source code) from
>Information Modes.  (800) 628-7992
>--

Correction to the above:  I have since talked to IM and have been
informed that all that is being sold is the commented source, not the
DOS itself, and that the way it was disassembled, it is not going to be
easy to reassemble.  (It was disassembled for instructional purposes only;
not for reasons of modification and reassembly)

Still, you could probably get the DOS (1.1 or any early version)
yourself if you looked around some (I know I have a copy of 1.1
somewhere...) and it would be small.  You'd sure get a big number from
MAPMEM or CHKDSK...
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