Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:27:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Luis Fernando Romero <romerol AT cc DOT unican DOT es>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Accessing more than 16MB memory in WinNT
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On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Luis Fernando Romero wrote:

> WinNT has a different approach for modifying the parameters of a dos box.
> You can adjust sizes for EMS and XMS memory, but both are limited to 16384 KB.
> 
> DPMI memory can't be adjusted this way, and seems that you have a total of
> 16 MEG available, with any configuration of EMS and XMS values (even 0).

Are you sure you cannot type a value larger than 16MB?  It seems strange 
to me that they'd make something so different in WinNT.  Otherwise, you 
should ask Microsoft (or any forum where NT gurus can help you) as my 
knowledge of NT is purely theoretical, sorry.