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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 w/4Dos
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.174819.7719@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 17:48:19 GMT
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reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:


>Stick  with QEMM.  I couldn't get more than around 610K free using 4DOS
>(3.03) and HIMEM.SYS, but was able to get 639.9K free using QEMM (5.13).
>This was using QEMM's LOADHI.SYS and LOADHI.COM programs.

Yes, and on a related note:  (This isn't really a followup; I'm just too
lazy to :post)  Re: DOS 5.0 on a '286.  Yes, it saves you mem iff you
don't use DesqView.  If you do, then it is no gain.  (Since both
programs compete for use of the same High Dos blocks and the HMA)
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