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From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5 and upper memory
Message-ID: <1991May10.164149.712@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: 10 May 91 04:41:49 GMT
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Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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In article <1991May5.191257.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, ccorzine@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
> Well, MS-DOS 5.0 definitely locates itself in high-memory, and it does have
> a load-hi program.  I have not messed with it much, by on the system we have
> tried it on, MS-DOS 4.01 leaves 526k free after all device drivers are load,
> with QEMM that figure goes up to about 590k, and MS-DOS 5.0 tops off at
> 596k of free memory. 

Have you (or anybody) compared MSDOS 5 with DRDOS 5? DRDOS seems to do better
than that (typically 610K for me), but it must depend on the configuration.

Mark Aitchison, Physics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.