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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:36:08 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Neil Townsend <neil AT robots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: GCC / RHIDE and CWSDMPI/CWSDPR0/Stubbing
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Neil Townsend wrote:

> Since I started this, I've been looking at the memory behaviour and have
> noticed something rather strange: My machine has 48M, and both CWSDPMI and
> CWSDPR0 recognise this (either HIMEM only or HIMEM + EMM NOEMS NOVCPI) but
> wont actually let me have the final 16M of physical memory. I can allocate
> up to 32M all told just fine, but if I ask for just a bit more it refuses!
> This seems odd - is there anyone in particular I should talk to about this?
> (Charles Sandmann?)

I seem to recall a discussion some time ago regarding a 32MB limitation
in some versions of EMM386.  You should read the archives-- I believe
some kind of workaround was found.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com