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From: dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Message-ID: <732@npiatl.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 90 14:50:31 GMT
References: <1284@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <970@v7fs1.UUCP> <129727@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2702@aecom.yu.edu> <519@tci.bell-atl.com> <5904@eos.UUCP>
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woody@eos.UUCP (Wayne Wood) writes:

>if you are going to make comparisons... there is no longer a 32MB size
>limit on the disk, a 640kB limit on RAM, or only 16 bit processors...

Tell how DOS uses more than 640k for programs, device drivers, and TSRs?
There are 'hicards' for the 286 and virtual-86 programs for the 386.  These
are hacks and still only give you ~704k DOS memory.  EMS is not an answer!

Try this: DOS 3.2, EMS driver, Novell IPX & Net3 leaves about 420k free.

Dwight Kelly
Network Publications, Inc.
Atlanta, GA