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From: wwitt@adara.intel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Question: DOS 5 and UMB's
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Date: 12 Jun 91 17:28:10 GMT
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Hi everybody!

Yesterday being the 11th, I, of course, had to run out and get my copy of
MS-DOS 5.0. I'm running DOS 5 in HMA under QEMM. Everything seems to be fine.
However, I've got a question...

Currently I'm using QEMM's loadhi utility to put drivers and TSRs into high
RAM (UMB's). I am not specifying DOS=UMB in my CONFIG.SYS file because I'm
not quite sure what this line is really supposed to do. The manual just says
something to the effect that DOS=UMB tells DOS to maintain a link to the
upper memory blocks. What are they talking about? What is this link? Should
I put DOS=UMB into CONFIG.SYS even though I'm using QEMM to manage high RAM?
It seems to work without it.

Thanks for any info you can provide.

Wolf

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