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From: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stripped down DOS?
Message-ID: <2617@kielo.uta.fi>
Date: 19 Apr 91 13:28:40 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.165452.7670@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Reply-To: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen)
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
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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,

How about DR-DOS version 5 ? They claim, it can have as much as 600k free
memory (at least with 386 processor).

It DR-DOS is not possible, try the normal things: set FILES and BUFFERS as
small as possible, load TSRs first (before setting environment variables) and
load things to high-memory (with QEMM or 386-MAX)
-- 
Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland