Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:24:51 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Memory issues with DOS 6
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On Fri, 1 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> I had 16 MB of RAM but have now
> upgraded to 48. However, it seems HIMEM.SYS will only give me ~16 MB of XMS.
> This is obviously a problem, since it means I can't use my new memory for
> DJGPP. The memory *is* there, it works fine when running Linux.

This is a FAQ (section 15.7).  A solution is to uninstall HIMEM, or
install EMM386.  Memory managers other than EMM are also a
possibility.

> If anyone is still using DOS 5, I'd like to know whether >16MB works
> for them.

I use DOS 5.0 with QEMM on a 32MB machine all the time, and I get all
of the memory I paid for.