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- MEM
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- Displays the amount of used and free memory in your system.
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- NOTES
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- Displaying memory status: FreeDOS displays extended memory only if you have
- memory installed above the 1MB boundary. FreeDOS displays expanded memory
- only if it conforms to version 4.0 of the Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded
- Memory Specification (LIM EMS).
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- Allocating extended memory: To allocate both Interrupt 15h memory and XMS
- memory, use the int15 switch when you load FD(X)XMS.SYS, HIMEM.EXE or HIMEM.SYS.
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- Different types of memory
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- Total conventional memory is the amount of memory on your computer up to the
- first 640K. Free Conventional Memory is the amount of conventional memory
- FreeDOS has for operating your computer, including the memory it needs for
- itself.
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- Total EMS memory is the amount of expanded memory on your computer. Free EMS
- memory is the amount of expanded memory available to programs. If you use
- EMM386 to simulate expanded memory, that memory appears in these two values.
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- Available XMS memory is memory managed by an extended-memory manager such as
- HIMEM.SYS, and available to programs that can use it.
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- Known bugs
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- See the bugs.txt file.
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