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I've been testing Windows 3.11 (WFWG actually) to see how far I could
push it. Sure, you can crash it, but after countless hours of tweaking
and configuring, I have it running 2 nodes of PCBoard with my tcp fossil
and Netware Client32 TCP/IP. Seems stable, good enough to use.

I use QEMM97 as the memory manager, Windows seems happy with it. Gives
me plenty of low memory inside each DOS box. After loading my tcp fossil
tsr, which takes only 15k, I still have plenty left for PCBoard:

Modules using memory below 1 MB:

  Name           Total           Conventional       Upper Memory
  --------  ----------------   ----------------   ----------------
  MSDOS        4,192    (4K)      4,192    (4K)          0    (0K)
  QEMM386        784    (1K)        784    (1K)          0    (0K)
  SETVER         496    (0K)        496    (0K)          0    (0K)
  LOCATION       288    (0K)        288    (0K)          0    (0K)
  LOADHI         112    (0K)        112    (0K)          0    (0K)
  COMMAND        768    (1K)        768    (1K)          0    (0K)
  WIN          2,480    (2K)      2,480    (2K)          0    (0K)
  win386       7,408    (7K)      7,408    (7K)          0    (0K)
  COMMAND      4,368    (4K)      4,368    (4K)          0    (0K)
  TCPFOSS     15,680   (15K)     15,680   (15K)          0    (0K)
  Free       618,048  (604K)    618,048  (604K)          0    (0K)

Memory Summary:

  Type of Memory       Total         Used          Free
  ----------------  -----------   -----------   -----------
  Conventional          655,360        37,312       618,048
  Upper                       0             0             0
  Reserved                    0             0             0
  Extended (XMS)     67,107,840    58,719,232     8,388,608
  ----------------  -----------   -----------   -----------
  Total memory       67,763,200    58,756,544     9,006,656

  Total under 1 MB      655,360        37,312       618,048

  Total Expanded (EMS)                  2,097,152 (2,048K)
  Free Expanded (EMS)                   2,097,152 (2,048K)
  Largest executable program size         618,032   (604K)
  Largest free upper memory block               0     (0K)
  The high memory area is available.



604k low memory, 2meg EMS, 8meg XMS, and the HMA is available too, DOS
is loaded low. QEMM97 is good for that. And though not listed, Windows
provides DPMI memory too.

That's a lot of 16-bit territory to explore. Not that it's relevant to
the modern world in any way, most programmers could care less. But to me
it's fun.

What's the point if you can't have fun?

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