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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Something else you can't do on the Mac
Message-ID: <1900@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 08:34:40 GMT
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dkelly@npiatl.UUCP (Dwight Kelly) writes:

>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.

Funny, with DOS 3.31, EMM.SYS, Novell IPX and Net3, plus a bunch of
other stuff I have 517k free. Of course we are cheating a little bit.
A program called LANSPACE loads NET3 up into the first 64k of extended
memory. But that only saves 30 or 40k. You must have some *huge* number
of buffers defined or some other such memory waster.

If you are using one of those pieces of junk like AboveDisc, to
*simulate* EMS memory using extended memory or diskswapping, then
you've lost 64k right there!
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