Linda Proulx wrote in a message to Peter Knapper:

 PK> So if you ever load ANY sort of driver, then it WILL always take up
 PK> memory, except it wont matter in the slightest to the rest of the
 PK> machine because it is all VIRTUAL memory!

 LP> I guess what I want to do is maximise the 32 Mb of memory I 
 LP> have.  I use to run DV & I would load some program specific 
 LP> drivers for that session if they weren't needed in the general 
 LP> boot up.  That way I could run more DV windows. 

The big difference there though is that with dv you're going to end up with a
first "window" that's going to become progressively smaller as you load more
drivers,  as even though you can load many of them into high memory they each
tend to need a small bit of that lower 640k,  eating away at it until you
start bumping into that limit.  On this box it's showing 571k as being
available (the most you can stuff into that first window,  successive ones
will be smaller) even though I've only got two processes currently running on
a machine with 16M.

The reason for this is because as good as dv is,  it's still running on top of 
_dos_.  OS/2 gets beyond all that,  and isn't restricted to a dos way of
dealing with memory.

 LP> I guess that's what I'm trying to do here.  In order to have 
 LP> more virtual sessions available to me generally I don't want to 
 LP> take away anything from the original OS startup that may lose 
 LP> me 1 or 2 available sessions later that a specific need driver 
 LP> would take away from my total available memory.

 LP> I trust this makes sense?

Yes.  I understand the concern you're expressing here.  But under OS/2,  it's
not a problem...

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