TW> Was the first thing that your *.COM program did was free all but 
TW> the memory used by the program?
SL> So i free all but 64k? 
You can free up all but what your program requires.  I have, for example, 
freed up all but 12K.  But remember that you must leave room (at least 1k to 
be safe) for the Stack and you must change the SS and SP registers 
accordingly.
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