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- Path: sparky!uunet!drivax!frotz
- From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz)
- Subject: Re: Memory management under DRDOS 6.0
- Message-ID: <F9YPBST@dri.com>
- Sender: frotz@novell.com
- Reply-To: frotz@novell.com
- Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
- References: <1992Aug17.172841.29491@esd.dl.nec.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:48:58 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West) writes:
-
- ]While killing time in a bookstore this weekend I saw a book
- ]put out by PC Magazine that was dealing with advanced memory
- ]management for MSDOS 5.0. (Sorry, but I can't remember the
- ]exact title.) The utility that I was really interested by
- ]was a driver that claimed to allow EMS on a plain ole 286
- ](which is of great interest to me because that is what I am
- ]stuck with for the near future).
-
- ]My question for you DRDOS gurus is this: How compatible would
- ]this stuff be with DRDOS 6.0? It looked like it had a lot of
- ]really neat stuff, but are DRDOS and MSDOS similar enough that
- ]the stuff would work under DRDOS too?
-
-
- Unknown. You can get EMS support on a 286, but the driver that you'll
- use will be HIDOS.SYS rather than EMM386.SYS. My mind is a little
- fogged right now, so I couldn't tell you what the major differences
- are other than the 286/386 support... I don't think that there are,
- but then again, I've already made my disclaimer.
-
- ]Since this is a relatively specific request, email responses
- ]would probably be best.
-
- Try "drdos@novell.com"...
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