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Article #722336Re: Memory problem in DOS
From: Joseph M. Spreng
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:00
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Mark Owen Scott, Here's my CONFIG.SYS, less the CD ROM driver that I use: DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /V DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS D=64 X=C000-C7FF /V DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO FILESHIGH=50 BUFFERSHIGH=22 STACKSHIGH=9,256 FCBSHIGH=1,0 LASTDRIVEHIGH=Z SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:768 /P DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS BREAK=ON You need to load HIMEM.SYS & EMM386.EXE to setup your DOS memory. Later. Mark Owen Scott wrote: > Milan wrote: > [snip] > > Sorry I can't help you with your problem, but I have a similar > > situation. My girlfriend's Cyrix 6x86 P-200 claims to have no upper > memory. None, nada, zip. This means that, while running in true DOS > mode, it can't run a vast majority of programs. I suspect that Win95 > has some legacy program that takes that space even when rebooting into > > MS-Dos mode. I think I can get by with a boot disk, but those are a > royal pain in the [], and I'd rather find another way. > > From what I've seen, no PC could run Win95 or any modern > program > without that upper memory, so I assume it does exist. What gives? > > Email replies preferred. > > Pastor of Muppets > > Xenaphobia: fear of mythical heroines with large breasts. -- Good Luck. Joseph M. Spreng jmsp...@ct1.nai.net "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck you've got a duck." -- Dan Rather
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From: "Joseph M. Spreng" <jmsp...@ct1.nai.net> Subject: Re: Memory problem in DOS Date: 1997/07/27 Message-ID: <33DB9F10.7C0D9C6C@ct1.nai.net> X-Deja-AN: 259507559 References: <33D5A163.E073DDC0@netvigator.com> <33D76384.7819@worldnet.att.net> <33D7957C.7AA3FD58@netvigator.com> <33DB11B1.62E0280A@cs.utexas.edu> To: Mark Owen Scott <tri...@cs.utexas.edu> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: North American Internet Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit