TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: 4dos
to: TOM HALL
from: BOB SEABORN
date: 1998-05-17 09:02:00
subject: MS-Dos 7 with 700 KB free!

Morning Tom,
 >KM>   device=c:\yourpath\emm386.exe noems i=A000-B7FF
 >
 >KM> in config.sys resulted in well over 700 Kbyte of free DOS
 >KM> mem after rebooting. (I boot to DOS level only, prefering to
 >KM> start W95 manually or by batch). Now how's that, without
 >KM> QEMM or any other external drivers? Time permitted only
 >KM> limited testing, but DOS seemed to work well.
 >
 > Yes, I got the same results here on a P90: 710K of low DOS memory
 > available at the system prompt.
      Because you're telling the computer to run in CGA emulation, and 
apping
memory location A000-AFFF into low RAM.  Don't try to run anything in either 
protected mode or with much in the way of graphics though.
      This has NOTHING to do with 4DOS, though.  ;)
                       .....Bob
--- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
---------------
* Origin: North American RegSite for AllFix & Gecho (1:140/12.1)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.