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- From: dan@delfin.com (Dan Stickel)
- Subject: Re: Why dos5? (Maybe not as ideotic as it sounds)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.215951.24260@delfin.com>
- Organization: Delfin Systems
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:59:51 GMT
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- gnelson@megatest.com (Glenn Nelson) writes:
- : From article <1je09vINNhrm@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, by bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng):
- : > Don't laugh. If you go back to the c: prompt alot, I understand how dos5
- : > gives you more base memory. I have no problem with that. But why do people
- : > use dos5 when they stay in Windows all day?
-
- ... Stuff Deleted ...
- : >
- : I can't resist. I was going to skip this article, but I considered the
- : parenthetical phrase in the subject. Well, it IS as "ideotic (sic) as it sounds".
- : What would you run instead? You have to run SOME DOS before Windows
- : (or you could run OS/2). Since DOS 5.0 frees more base memory than DOS 4.x or
- : 3.x, what would you recommend? DOS 1.0 perhaps???
- :
- : A little enlightenment. On my system I get about 610 K free with DOS 5.0,
- : about 540K with DOS 4.01 and about 570K with DOS 3.3. Which would you choose
- : to run?
-
- What difference does the amount of "free" memory make when you use Windows
- programs only? Your Windows programs will have access to all physical
- memory (and optional virtual memory as well). I don't want to get into
- a big flame war, here, but I do have a specific question:
-
- Does the amount of free base DOS memory have any impact on Windows
- functionality?
- virtual memory
-