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echo: os2dos
to: AARON GELNER
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1997-06-30 21:44:00
subject: Dual Drives = 2 OS`?

 AG>    2031616 bytes total XMS memory
 AG>    2031616 bytes available XMS memory
 AG>          0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
 AG>            64KB High Memory Area available
 AG> What you see is 2 megs or so right?  Could someone please help me?  Is
 AG> that  what it is suppose to say for a 68x6 p120 with 8 megs of ram or
 AG> should it  report the full 8 megs?  
One thing to remember is that you aren't in DOS any more, Toto.  (-:
MEM is a DOS program.  It reports the configuration of the Virtual DOS 
Machine that it is run in.  In OS/2, you can have multiple Virtual DOS 
Machines, all running side by side.  One of the many advantages of OS/2 is 
that each VDM can be individually configured, using the [DOS Settings] 
dialogue that is accessible from the [Settings] page of the VDM program 
object's property notebook.  
The XMS and EMS memory configurations reported to DOS programs are complete 
fictions.  Unlike on DOS, they do not represent the actual physical memory 
configuration of the machine.  So one of the things that you are going to 
have to get used to is that your DOS tools, however convincing their output 
may be, really _aren't_ reporting the state of the actual physical hardware 
to you when they are run on OS/2.
If you want to find out what OS/2 _itself_ is seeing of your hardware, then 
use a native OS/2 tool to do so, such as the System Information Tool in your 
Bonus Pack.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
--- FleetStreet 1.19 NR
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