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On Fri, 1 Aug 1997 rb...@citycom.com wrote:

> Date: Fri, 01 AUG 1997 08:21:30 -0700 
> From: rb...@citycom.com
> Newgroups: 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
> Subject: Re: Memory problem in DOS 
> 
> Gary Hageman wrote:
> > 
> > In article <33DB9F10...@ct1.nai.net>, jmsp...@ct1.nai.net says...
> > >
> > >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
> > >
> > >
> > I get nearly the entire 640k with
> > 
> > A;\himem.sys
> > A:\emm386.exe ram
> > files=50
> > buffers=50
> > dos=high,umb
> > devicehigh=c:\windows\setver.exe
> > devicehigh=(Your cd driver)
> > 
> > This of course indicated that I like to use a boot disk. I copy himem.sys
> > and emm386.exe to the disk. Hope this helps. Hope I am not intruding.
> > 

Yeah, but how the hell do you use dos games which require a MOUSE?
Damn LOGITECH driver eats like 60K memory.

> >                                                 Dutch
> 
> Dutch,
> 
> You may want to think of a couple of things for yourself:
> 
> 1)  Instead of using UMB on your dos line, change it to RAM
> 
> 2)  You may want to look at doing a multi-boot type configuration to
> give yourself flexiblity and that way you dont have to use your A: drive
> to load anything into memory - do it all from your hard drive.  Have
> found by doing that I can have various configs for booting, depending on
> what I need to load and do.
> 
> Ralph
> 
>