From: JP Morris <jmorris AT calderauk DOT com>
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Subject: Re: EMM386 limiting memory to 32Mb
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:15:28 +0100
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Victor wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:33:15 +0100, JP Morris <jmorris AT calderauk DOT com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > QEMM doesn't have the limit, in one person's config I saw +90M of 
> > EMS!
> >
> If you saw 90Mb of EMS that doesn't mean there's no limit. The limit
> could be 128Mb ;)

Very true, but CWSDPMI (Which is going to -use- the EMS) has a limit of
128MB physical anyway, IIRC.

(FluxOS/mach dos extender has a 2GB physical/2GB swap limit, but it is 
elf-based, not coff, and intended to be cross-compiled.)

If you use QEMM's DPMI server you won't be constrained by CWSDPMI.
I don't know if there are any limits inherent in the compiler libs or
not. (Apart from 4GB addressing)

> But seriously, I'm interested to find out the maximum amount of RAM
> QEMM or similar managers can handle.

Unfortunately I don't know what version it was that I saw.

> If anyone has any info, I'd appreciate that.
> Victor Fesenko.
> fesenko AT pacific DOT net DOT sg