On 27 Mar 00 at 19:50, Michael L. Dawley wrote:
>>less high memory to stick stuff in<g>. All my other computers,
>>set up much like this one, have about 36K left over in the
>>high area after setver, dmouse, smartdrv and epppdd are
>>placed there. For example, on my Compaq computer,
>>the Total Upper memory is 158,576, but
>>on this IBM PS/1, it's 125,808. Everything else is the same,
>>except for Extended (XMS) which reflects the installed RAM
>>on each machine. Actually, this IBM PS/1 has 32 MB, and the
>>Compaq only 24 MB, so that doesn't affect the conventional,
>>Upper area we are concerned with.
>>Anyone have any ideas on this?
The order that you load stuff into high memory affects how much you
can put there since high memory can become fragmented and thus there
is some wasted space. I think MSDOS recommends loading high the
largest programs first and the smallest last.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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