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From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Large memory usage CWSDPMI test available
Date: Mon,  3 Dec 2001 13:48:25
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> -: If you have more than 400Mb of memory in your system and need to use it 
> -: under DOS (not Windows) quickly - you might be interested.  If not, don't 
> -: mess with it.
> 
> Is it worth "testing" under plain DOS with <<400Mb RAM,
> just to confirm nothing is broken in that situation?

You can if you want to.  There will be many more test releases before
the first beta.  The only thing I think is likely to break under 
typical usage is paging performance.  If you have enough memory not to
page it's probably OK.  The readme in the zip file has more info on the
implementation issues and details.

This test is mostly for people who can't live with W9x's limited 
address space :-)

Already one comment from a person with a 4Gb capable motherboard who
might add memory if they had software to run on it ...  I personally
don't have access to any machine with more than 2Gb, so testing that
may be tough.