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echo: 4dos
to: TED MENKS
from: VIC BATES
date: 1998-04-13 16:47:00
subject: no memory for 4dos under win95

Hello Ted,
Wed 08 Apr 98 at 19:21, Ted Menks  wrote to Vic Bates:
 TM> Does Win95 create free UMB's inside every new dos-box? I don't think so!
 TM> Windows just treats ALL memory as ONE big pool, putting some aside for
 TM> each box you open. But this only warrants you some LOW memory, and
 TM> eventually some free EMS or XMS, if you configure the box for such
 TM> stuff. UMB's are NOT includeed in the deal, alas.
So I found out.  I read that stuff cannot be loaded high from a dosbox.  This 
is because there's no upper mem left after vmm32 has grabbed it all. Although 
I thought there would be an easy way to reserve some so that each dosbox 
could have the rqd amount of conventional, upper, xms, ems, memory 
configured. But alas it seems there is not.
Rgds, Vic
--- GoldED/386 2.50+43UK1
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