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From: drj2540@tamsun.tamu.edu (Dennis Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Stripped down DOS?
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Date: 22 Apr 91 11:34:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) 

>>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)

How about MS-Dos 5.0.  I know that you can have 625k free with a '386.
I also have 100k+ of TSR's loaded, 10 buffers, and 30 files.  I also have
Qemm/386 loaded...	;-)

	Dennis R. Johnson

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