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From: spolsky@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: RAM use in 4.0 (was Re DOS 4.0)
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Date: 2 Aug 88 19:56:34 GMT
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In article <296@octopus.UUCP> pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
>I was perturbed when I saw how much more of the precious 640K was taken by
>DOS 3.3 than DOS 3.2... 50-70K more! More than double the size.
>
>Now we have a DOS with lots of bells and whistles. Does anybody know
>how much room DOS 4.0 takes?
>

About 256K, with the lame presentation-manager lookalike, but most of that
is swapped out automatically when applications are run.

> [neat graphic deleted]    Peter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises

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Joel Spolsky
Bell Communications Research
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