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From: fesenko AT pacific DOT net DOT sg (Victor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 00:55:40 GMT
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:52:16 +0000, "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)"
<salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar> wrote:

>ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg) wrote:
>
>> Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) (salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar) wrote:
>> : Don't know, I normally don't use no-djgpp from djgpp programs. I'll see it. 
>> : But is the only way to give all the memory to CWSDPMI when you are using DOS 
>> : 6.22 and you want to use the UMBs.
>> 
>> How do check that? go32-v2? mem?
>
>What? The memory available for djgpp: go32-v2. The limitation Eli pointed: 
>Run a djgpp program, shell to DOS, run mem.
>
>SET 

Hi, folks.
Could someone please tell me why you want to beat the 32Mb limitation
of emm386, why not just use himem.sys, which allows for 64Mb of
extended RAM? Is there any special reason to use emm386?

Regards. Victor.

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