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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:48:34 +0000
From: Uncle Slacky <uncle_slacky AT ntlworld DOT com>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Best config for a 286?
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da Silva, Joe wrote:

> However, there are some 286 chipsets which provide a remapping
> facility, so if you have one of these, and it's one that the DR-DOS
> HIMEM.SYS knows how to manipulate (the M$-DOS version does
> not know how to, for any 286 chipset, AFAIK). It's possible that
> PC-DOS 2000 may have similar capabilities for certain chipsets,
> don't know (tell us;-).


I booted up the machine for the first time in weeks just now, swapped 
the 7.03 HIMEM back in, and it produced no errors on bootup! Gave me 
562Kb free instead of 534Kb. I'm sure DRDOS had trouble with HIMEM when 
it was first installed - maybe it just needed a (very) cold boot!


> Your other friend is DPMS.EXE, supplied with DR-DOS. 


I'll check that out, thanks.


Uncle Slacky