Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:33:23 GMT
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.213323.1798@qdeck.com>
References: <61.2B03050C@btnbbs.UUCP>
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In article <61.2B03050C@btnbbs.UUCP> Sammy@btnbbs.UUCP (Sammy) writes:
>Mabye it's me doing something wrong, but..
>
>Both my bios and dos5's mem.exe report 1280k of "contiguous" extended memory, but when I load QEMM, that number drops to about 800k. I loaded EMS40.SYS from Pc magazine, and managed to get the entire 1280k of EMS. But, desqview wouldn't run. Do I need a new version of DV? I have dv 2.32 and qemm 5.12.
>
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This is perfectly normal. In your example you are missing 480k. You are
also creating high RAM to the tune of ~384k. QEMM also has some overhead of
its own that comes out of extended memory. If you want a precise breakdown
of what memory is going where, check out MFT's QEMM/Memory section.