On 12 Dec 00 at 0:16, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote:
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:06:22 +0000
>From: "Ron Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Arachne 1.68
>> 50kb for chemistry or for music? Did you do everything in order to
>> optimize config.sys?
>
> I think so.
> Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory Notes
> -------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
> MSDOS 21,741 (21K) 21,741 (21K) 0 (0K)
> HIMEM 1,168 (1K) 1,168 (1K) 0 (0K)
> EMM386 3,120 (3K) 3,120 (3K) 0 (0K)
> COMMAND 5,760 (6K) 5,760 (6K) 0 (0K)
> SMARTDRV 29,024 (28K) 29,024 (28K) 0 (0K)
> Type of Memory Total = Used + Free
> ---------------- ---------- ---------- ----------
> Conventional 655,360 61,168 594,192
> Upper 93,104 81,152 11,952
> Total under 1 MB 748,464 142,320 606,144
Ron, I am not a memory expert, but just tried different DOS
configurations. You might get better results with these
changes:
Approach 1: QEMM
keep your MS-DOS version, but use QEMM instead of HIMEM and
EMM386:
rem BOOT from HD DOS 6.0 (with QEMM )
rem ========================================================
rem DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
rem DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ROM
SHELL=COMMAND.COM /E:1024 /P
DOS=HIGH,UMB
this may give you more upper memory, because the point is that you
should load SMARTDRV to upper memory:
INSTALLHIGH=C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE C+
Approach 2: DOS 7.10 (WINDOWS98)
[I do not feel entirely good recommending this, but:] The last
versions of MS- DOS which comes with Windows9x have a similar effect
as QEMM. And they minimize the amount of conventional memory used by
DOS.
If you do not want to install Windows, you can download only the
DOS 7.10 files from the web (they have been posted somewhere very
recently) and install them on your hard disk.
Or you go to the Website of W0rm (who IS a technical expert for these
matters) and get his utility disk. Which combines approach (1) and
approach (2).
Best Regards,
Christof Lange
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