Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpopd!dcc From: dcc@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Creswell) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Multi-task on 286 with Backfill Message-ID: <38900003@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> Date: 16 Apr 91 07:53:29 GMT References: <14649@helios.TAMU.EDU> Organization: Hewlett-Packard CCG-PWD, UK. Lines: 6 The whole point of back-filling is to replace some of the memory below 640K. Therefore the answer is that you should still have 640K of conventional memory if you've done everything right! Regards, Dan.