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From: "Glenn W. McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 22:17:04 -0500
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: emm386 and large amounts of memory...
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 Does anyone know how to get emm386 to recognize large amounts of mem?
Here is the line from config.sys followed by mem stats.

DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\EMM386.EXE DPMI=OFF FRAME=AUTO /R=AUTO

Memory Type           Total Bytes ( Kbytes  )       Available For Programs

Conventional              654,336 (    639K )          638,688 (    624K )
Upper                      98,304 (     96K )           86,448 (     84K )
High                       65,520 (     64K )            3,096 (      3K )
Extended               66,060,288 ( 64,512K )                0 (      0K )
Extended via XMS             --------               15,216,640 ( 14,860K )
EMS                    33,554,432 ( 32,768K )       33,554,432 ( 32,768K )

Largest executable program:  638,672 ( 624K )
Total Free DOS memory:       725,136 ( 708K )

 Now, here's the same info when useing Qemm instead.

DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM SH:N ARAM=CB80-CBFF <line break>
 R:1 ST:M S=FF00-FFFF UR=1M:80M
device=c:\qemm\dos-up.sys @c:\qemm\dos-up.dat

Memory Type           Total Bytes ( Kbytes  )       Available For Programs

Conventional              655,360 (    640K )          644,096 (    629K )
Upper                     307,040 (    300K )          174,704 (    171K )
High                       65,520 (     64K )            3,096 (      3K )
Extended               66,060,288 ( 64,512K )                0 (      0K )
EMS                    83,017,728 ( 81,072K )       82,313,216 ( 80,384K )

Largest executable program:  644,080 ( 629K )
Total Free DOS memory:       818,800 ( 800K )


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