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Date:	Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Gregor J Jones <gjones AT bu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: help: I need 8192k of EMS.
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

...

 | But, Qemm is the only memory manager I've found
 | that will give me "full use" of all 80Mb I have in this machine.
 | 
 | v7.5 of Qemm is the one I have.

Aaaaah, Glenn, so that's how you do it. I was sitting at home one day
recently scratching my head trying to work out how McCorkle could use so
much memory in a DOS box. I guess that is the Quarterdeck memory manager?
On my spiffy new box, I have 128 MB of memory. DRDOS emm386 quietly just
sees one half of that and sails on quite merrily. I tried to install
Qualitas qemm386, but it bombs with a stack overflow when it sees that
much memory. Funny, since the Qualitas Memory Tester quite happily tested
all 128 MB (and took all day to do it). IIRC, MessyDOS also won't
recognize more than 64 MB of memory, though I am not about to install it
just to find out.

So, I suppose I should amble over to ebay to find a copy of Quarterdeck
memory manager...BUT, wait a minute, what the fsck am I going to do with
all that memory in DOS anyhow? 128 MB is bigger than my DOS partition on
the hard drive!

Glenn, what DOS programs do you have that can use so much memory?

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Gregor Jones                          mailto:gjones AT bu DOT edu
Boston MA

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