To: ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru
Cc: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: memory optimization
Message-ID: <19970322.030033.2519.0.editor@juno.com>
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	<ACRUtCpW27 AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
From: editor AT juno DOT com (Bruce Morgen)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 03:01:39 EST


On Sat, 22 Mar 97 09:09:31 +0300 "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
writes:
>nuqneH,
>> From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
>> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 04:52:29 -0500 (EST)
>> Sender: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
>> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
>> Subject: memory optimization
>>
>> Under msdos I had something like 576K max available.
>> best results with qemm 7.04 and msdos were 604K.
>> Results with opendos were 609K without qemm.
>> The figures were useable conventional memory.
>
>Any hints on memory optimization for OpenDOS? I know a girl who got 
>600+
>conventional with QEMM/msdos - and OpenDOS's memory manager refused to 
>loadhi
>anyth except environments,buffers and other small things.. and its own
>utilities. And QEMM does not work on her machine with OpenDOS - she 
>gets exception 13 on every loadhi attempt.
>--- 
I have QEMM 7.04 and OpenDOS apparently 
coexisting just dandy on two systems, 
a 486DLC-40 and a 486DX-33, don't recall 
doing anything special other than 
stripping out all previous LOADHI and 
LOADHI.SYS invocations and running QEMM's 
OPTIMIZE program.  Both machines have 
over 600KB conventional, even with 
Stacker running.

Has anyone succeeded in retrofitting 
MS-DOS while retaining Stacker?  I'm 
asking with respect to an industrial SBC 
with an XT architecture that'll take 
literally hours to unstack if that's the 
only way to retrofit without losing data 
or backing up the drive.  Thanks!