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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:09:00 EDT
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- From: PARKINSN@MCMASTER
- Subject: Re: Blums's UMB driver and huge free RAM for NB
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- Perhaps someone could answer a question about the amount of memory freed
- up here. Although I can't see it in the config.sys file, it seems to me
- that a huge chunk of the free memory comes from disabling the vga memory
- which gives you another 60-70k above the 640k. If this is the case then
- N.B. won't run in the 50 line mode which I like, and that is why Windows
- won't load as well. Am I right, or just confused? If Blum's UMB gives
- me over 700k _with_ vga graphics still loaded, then I'm excited. But if
- not, then I can't see how it's much better than qemm or the dr-dos memory
- manager which I use now.
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- Thanks for any help on this central issue.
- Ted Parkinson
- McMaster University
- Hamilton, Ontario
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