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from: Michal H. Tyc
date: 2003-12-04 20:50:22
subject: Re: DR Dos on a P4

From: "Michal H. Tyc" 

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:00:38 -0600, Jacob Brewer wrote:

> On my P4  I am having some problems.  It says address a20 already in use
> when I load himem.sys. 

It's a warning only. I get it on my (Pentium-MMX) based Toshiba notebook
as well, but HIMEM works anyway.

> Then when the system comes up I only have access to
> 64MB of the 512MB :(

DR-DOS memory managers (at least the latest official versions of them)
support up to 64 MB only. You may have to borrow Win9x HIMEM.SYS.

Hope this helps,

Michal



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