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From: | Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se> |
Subject: | RE: Total memory? |
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Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:39:13 +0100 |
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Joe wrote: >The amount of extended memory is returned by interrupt $15, function >$88. Beware however, that interrupt $15 can crash some XT machines! But isn't this limited to the ammount the XMS driver can handle? I don't know the limit for DR-DOS but MS-DOS 6.x has the limit at 64MB. If you copy himem.sys from 7.x you get a lot more - I haven't tried to figure out the limit since 128MB "should be enough for everyone" ;-) //Bernie
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