From: "Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DR-DOS 7.03 Not Recognizing All Memory
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:07:15 +0100
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>    So far everything seems to be working, and I will be reading the
>DOSBOOK to learn the new bells and whistles over the MS-DOS (5.0) I
>used to use before I upgraded and decided that I don't much like 'doozy
>98.  However, there is one thing I have already looked for and have not
>found.  My machine has 128MB RAM installed, and 'doozy recognizes all of
>it.  However, when I boot DR-DOS, the MEM command only reports on 64MB. 
>Is this a limitation of DR-DOS?


Yes, but you can fix it.

Write this before DEVICE=c:\drdos\emm386.exe [...] :

DEVICE=c:\windows\himem.sys

(don't use himem from Dr-DOS, use this one from Win98).

Then you can use all memory!

Happy Christmas!
Florian
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