From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: :Memory Exhausted
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:52:06 -0500
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QBallLives wrote:
> 
> I sincerely apologize Sinan.... but I do believe conventional memory (or lack
> thereof...) can have a significant impact on nearly any operation you'd want to
> perform...

DJGPP runs entirely in extended/expanded memory, except for about 90K of
convential memory initially and 19K or so for each nested program that
is used by the DPMI host.  That's what's so great about DPMI;
conventional memory becomes almost irrelevant.

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