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Old 07-14-2008, 11:46 AM
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Default Re: DOS and 4GB of RAM

Claudehl@aol.com wrote:

> On Jun 27, 3:33=EF=BF=BDam, ak...@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) wrote:
> > Know1 (Kn...@home.com) wrote:


> > > wrote:
> > > > Is there anyway to limit how much memory is available to DOS, without
> > > > actually pulling physical RAM out?


> > > Perhaps setting up a ramdrive
> > > may work; with xmsdsk; and thus
> > > limiting the amount of physical ram
> > > available to DOS.

> >
> > *** =EF=BF=BD Except that DOS loads before XMSDSK.
> >
> > =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BD =EF=BF=BDRichard Bonner


> With 2 GB of RAM, QEMM shows 2 GB of memory but with 4 GB, it only
> shows 64 MB (but at least everything works normally). So somewhere
> between 2 GB and 4 GB there must be a barrier.


> Claude


*** I would think that might be a QEMM limit. What version are you
using?

Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/

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