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From: pschwart@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Paul Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stripped down DOS?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.151143.16120@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 15:10:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.165452.7670@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, 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,

MS-DOS 5.0 is supposed to only consume @5-6k if you have high memory space
avaliable.  It should be comming out soon.  I think DR-DOS 5 does this
already, though it may not be quite this small.

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