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From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Memory over 64 MB
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:48:31 -0400
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"Orlando P. Hevia" <heviaop AT ssdfe DOT com DOT ar> wrote in message
news:200104222152 DOT RAA31360 AT pop1 DOT lc-2 DOT la DOT inter DOT net...
> Is there a tool to make available the memory over 64MB in
> DOS 6.22?
>
> go32 informs (correctly):
>
> DPMI memory available: 57387 Kb
> DPMI swap space available: 129917 Kb
>
> The system has 196 MB of RAM, cwsdpmi swap space is the
> default (128 MB). 128 MB of RAM are unused in DOS.
>
> Or it is a fundamental DOS limit?

Yes. You may want to try himem.sys from windows or something like that...
Seems like I can access all that memory if I boot windows in command prompt
mode only or something where himem.sys from windows gets loaded (i have
winME).

Good Luck
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