Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 11:09:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Aylott Mark <AylottM AT thmulti DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DPMI Host limited to 64MB physical memory on Compaq PC ??
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Aylott Mark wrote:

> I've tried installing EMM386, but it's limited to 32MB.
> From what I understand this 32MB comes from the 64MB
> pool handled by HIMEM.SYS, so it does not break the
> magical 64MB barrier.
> 
> It looks like I have to use another memory manager.
> Do you know of any memory managers that can
> handle more than 64MB ??

It is possible that this is a BIOS issue.  I have never worked on a
machine that has more than 64MB of physical memory installed, so I
don't have any real experience here.  You can have more than 64MB of
total DPMI memory, of that I'm sure, but if you need more than 64MB
*physical* memory, then it is possible that the BIOS just doesn't
report more than 64MB (the format of the CMOS data overflows at 64MB).