Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:23:28 -0000
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To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
From: b52g AT pop DOT netaddress DOT usa DOT net (JP Morris)
Subject: Re: memory optimization

>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

Make sure you have umbs enabled.  I think you have to have 'memmax +U' in your
autoexec.bat file before it works.

I get 610,000, or 622,000 if I don't load my SCSI drivers :-).

>utilities. And QEMM does not work on her machine with OpenDOS - she gets
>exception 13 on every loadhi attempt.

Quemm is the devil.  OpenEMM386 can be just as bad.. but making bootdisks is a
good use for 720k disks. :-)

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