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Sender: nate AT cartsys DOT com
Message-ID: <35BEABA9.BD11C88E@cartsys.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 21:57:13 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>, b52g AT usa DOT net,
djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980728104850 DOT 4133H-100000 AT is>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > Another datapoint:  I use EMM386 from MSDOS 5.0 with NOEMS (I like the
> > 64K to be UMB's instead of page frame), and it works fine.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by ``works fine''?  I think the issue here was
> how to work around the 32MB limitation of EMM.

I mean, DJGPP programs run.  Yes, I guess that has no bearing on the
actual issue at hand, since an even worse limitation in HIMEM.SYS of DOS
5.0 limits it to 16MB, masking any other limits.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com


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