To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 03:42:23 -0800
Subject: Re: DR-DOS 7.03 Not Recognizing All Memory
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

I don't know "how" it works, but perhaps some of our programmer friends
could go into some detail on the subject.  

I have 4 books on DRDOS 6 and Novel DOS 7 which all include a small
explanation of several types of memory.  Under the heading 'XMS' they
each contain the addressable amounts of memory under the LIM XMS
standard.  16M for 80286 and 1G for 80386 or 80486 CPU's.  Now that we
have the magic of PII, PIII, and P4 CPU's  maybe you really can address 1
Terabyte, as the latest hype on some of the INTEL motherboard chipsets
appear to claim.  What in H$$$ you would need all that memory for beats
me, unless it is to cover up for some dumb programmer who made a program
which did not have instructions to release all used memory when
terminating, and we do have plenty of those programs out there, mostly
games.  Among other things that is supposed to be the reason windows
crashes when a DOS game is being played in a DOS Window.  

I hope there has not been a degradation of the OS by LINEO since 1992
when DR DOS 6 was in use and 2 of these  book were published.  All my
books, including the Novell DOS 7 and DR DOS 6 instruction manuals kind
of guide you to useing Setup and MEMMAX to setup your memory management ,
'unless you are an expert DOS user'.   They both included 3rd party
memory managers in the DOS package.  I have not used the newer versions
so I don't really know what extras are included now, if any. 

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS   

On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:55:21 +0100 "Florian Xaver" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
writes:
> >With DR DOS, you are supposed to be able to address 1,000M of 
> extended
> >memory using XMS.
> 
> 
> How (without himem.sys from Win9x/ME)? Or haven't I understand the 
> text?
> 
> Bye, Florian
> --"I brauch kan Dokta...Mia hilft nur da Rock&Roll" www.ostbahn.at
> -- www.seal.de.vu - the DOS GUI -- www.drdos.org Club Dr-DOS
> -- This mail was written by user of Arachne at www.arachne.cz
> 
> 

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