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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Future of PC-DOS ??
Message-ID: <1370@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Feb-86 16:52:54 EST
Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.1370
Posted: Sun Feb 23 16:52:54 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Feb-86 08:11:31 EST
References: <354@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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Summary:

In <354@chinet.UUCP> ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen) writes:
>I'm not looking for any 'product disclosures', but rather just trying to
>open a discussion about the 'possibilities' of the future of PC-DOS.  For
>example, we all complain about not having enough memory.  I have a 640K PC,
>couple external hard disks, etc.  But I have RAM disk, print buffer, etc,
>and have for example only 10K after Reflex loads!
>  SO, what's the future got to offer?

The March 25, 1986 issue of PC Magazine has several small articles/references
concerning a possible new standard in the works for memory resident programs.
The purpose of this would be to allow TSR (terminate and stay resident) prog-
rams to find out what other TSR software is currently installed and internally
compensate (so that three programs aren't trying to grab the same interrupts
at the same time, etc.), to ACCURATELY determine available memory, and to de-
install wherever order it was loaded in relative to other TSRs presently in-
stalled.

I also read that the new versions of most TSRs will know how to use Lotus-Intel
expanded memory, so that they don't consume all of your 640K before you can
even load in a 'primary' program like Lotus 1-2-3.

Note:  this will all become obsolete when Windows take over the world and/or
when DOS can address >640K, but I thought it might prove interesting in the
meanwhile.
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