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From: sag@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz)
Subject: Re: frustration with memory problems
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.142027.28924@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
Sender: sag@iplmail (Steve Gabrilowitz)
Organization: Martin Marietta
References: <31945@usc> <1991Apr17.174244.5318@rick.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 14:20:27 GMT

In article <1991Apr17.174244.5318@rick.cs.ubc.ca>, e4666881@rick.cs.ubc.ca (richard louie) writes:

|>      There is one other solution, get a product called DR-DOS 5.0 from 
|> the people at Digital Research.  Its a DOS compatible OS which replaces MS-DOS.
|> WHY?  Because it will do everything MS-DOS will and give you the memory that
|> QEMM does and do it automatically.


There is yet another possible solution to this RAM cram problem, which is to replace your COMMAND.COM with a shareware product called 4DOS.  It will keep most of itself swapped out to high memory (or even disk) and save you some of the memory normally eaten up by COMMAND.COM.

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                            Steve Gabrilowitz
                            Martin Marietta, Orlando Fl.
                            sag@iplmail.orl.mmc.com
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