Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!16012_3045
From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 640kb limit on DOS?
Message-ID: <1055@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 10 Dec 88 12:15:59 GMT
References: <8043@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <3521@nicmad.UUCP>
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Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada

In article <3521@nicmad.UUCP>, brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot (Vid-e-it)) writes:
> In article <8043@ihlpl.ATT.COM> nala@ihlpl.ATT.COM (A. Flora-Holmquist) writes:
> <Greetings,
> <
> <My father-in-law owns a PS-2 mod 50 and runs DOS 3.2. He would like to
> <know what version of DOS allows him to use more than 640kb for an
> <application and what are the advantages of DOS 4.0 over DOS 3.x versions?
> 
> NO version of DOS allows for anything except 640K.  OS/2 programs will.
> Programs like Lotus 1-2-3 use expanded memory to do stuff.  This skirts the
> DOS memory issue.
> 
> Sorry for the bad news.
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