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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.182607.14651@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <80082@bcsaic.boeing.com> <1992Aug14.175049.1691@rei.com> <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:26:07 GMT
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- In <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu> duzan@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan) writes:
-
- >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. :-)
-
- Several people have said this. I've done it and had it work just fine
- (in fact, I loaded it high with QEMM because it didn't seem to be
- willing to load itself high by itself like it's supposed to -- didn't
- think it had enough room, presumably).
-
- Any thoughts why this DOES work for me?
-
-
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