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- From: duzan@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan)
- Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu>
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- References: <80082@bcsaic.boeing.com> <1992Aug14.175049.1691@rei.com> <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:08:53 GMT
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- In article <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@nano.engr.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) writes:
- =>fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- =>
- =>>milan@bcsaic.boeing.com (Milan Richter) writes:
- =>
- =>>Under a DOS 5 shell from Windows 3.1 you can have as much as 600K free,
- =>>with the proper setup.
- =>
- =>If your use something like QEMM with it as well, the savings go a bit
- =>higher. I can get 610464 bytes of memory free, and that's with
- =>soundcard drivers, mouse driver, ANSI... I'm impressed.
- =>
- Just make sure that you don't load SMARTDRV.EXE high. When I first
- set up 3.1 it was crashing quite regularly, which rather annoyed me since
- it was supposed to be more stable than 3.0. I traced the problem to
- SMARTDRV and 3.1 has behaved itself pretty well since then. (I'm still
- looking forward to poking around with OS/2 2.0, but that is another
- story. :-)
-
- Gary Duzan
- Time Lord
- Third Regeneration
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