Message-Id: <3.0.6.16.19990607205309.2b2fedea@mail.highfiber.com> X-Sender: raster AT mail DOT highfiber DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (16) Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:53:09 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Charles Dye Subject: Re: DRDOS 7.03 loading XMS-driver now wastes memory In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: opendos AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk At 05:36 PM 6/2/99 EDT, DH473 AT AOL DOT COM wrote: >Sometimes I use to run the HIMEM.SYS from PC-DOS7 as XMS-driver. >It consumes only about 750 Byte of my precious DOS memory. >It runs stable all the time. >Now with DRDOS 7.03 it occupies 32 KB more when loading! >So the advantage to hold both the BIOS kernel code and the COMMAND.COM >in the HMA would be lost. :-( I've replicated your problem under 7.03. Something screwy going on -- HIMEM.SYS does not resize its memory block correctly. Same thing with HIMEM.SYS from MS-DOS 5.0. But an old Logitech MOUSE.SYS *does* resize correctly -- I don't understand. Whatever it is, it's recent. MS/IBM HIMEM.SYS work fine under DR-DOS 7.02. You could try reporting the problem to dos DOT support AT caldera DOT com, but I get the impression they're not really interested in fixing bugs at this point. >Any ideas? Simple. Use the HIMEM.SYS that came with DR-DOS :-) No, it won't provide upper memory blocks on your machine, but then, neither would the IBM driver. raster AT highfiber DOT com