On 3 Dec 00 at 1:11, Sam Ewalt wrote:
>>While poking around various DR-DOS sites today I was struck by the many
>>varieties of DOS available and I'm wondering if there might be advantages
>>for running Arachne with some of these other variants--like perhaps earlier
>>versions with a smaller footprint. Or would you gain something there only to
>>lose out better memory management with latter versions?
>>
>>Comments from those with expertise would be appreciated.
I switched my XT Arachne box to IBM PCDOS 3.3 before upgrading to
1.66 back in the summer. I had to repartition my 40 meg Seagate
ST251 to the max 32 meg size it supports. With the smaller footprint
of PCDOS 3.3, QRAM memory manager, and the maximum memory CORE.EXE
that was compiled for v1.66 I got significantly more free memory.
Still, it was not enough to help much with the painfully slow screen
draws with a VGA card. ;) HTH.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me.
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