Conventional          640K        18K       622K
Upper                 128K        10K       118K
Reserved              256K       256K         0K
Extended (XMS)      3,328K     1,000K     2,328K
----------------  --------   --------   --------
Total memory        4,352K     1,284K     3,068K

Looks like you're not using the latest HIMEM and EMM386, which might make a difference. Without the EMS report on MEM, I can't tell what the EMS allocation is, either.

Config (FDKERNEL):   SYSTEM  COMMAND  XMS  EMM  FREE  XMS_USE  XMS_FREE
=======================================================================
NONE                     70      126    -    -   441     3008         -
FDHIMEM                  16        3    2    -   616     1242      1766
FDHIMEM  + EMM386        10        3    2    3   619     1465      1543
FDXMS286                 16        3    2    -   617     1242      1766
FDXMS286 + EMM386        10        3    2    3   620     1465      1543
MSHIMEM
MSHIMEM  + EMM386

Config  (MSDOS710):  SYSTEM  COMMAND  XMS  EMM  FREE  XMS_USE  XMS_FREE
=======================================================================
NONE
FDHIMEM
FDHIMEM  + EMM386
FDXMS286
FDXMS286 + EMM386
MSHIMEM 64 2944
MSHIMEM  + EMM386                                         292      2716


MS HIMEM (+FreeDOS EMM386.EXE) hardly takes any XMS.
EMM386 takes 223KB of XMS.

MS HIMEM was tested under MSDOS.
MS HIMEM + FD-EMM386 + FREECOM + FREEDOS KERNEL causes auto-reboot.
MS HIMEM + FD-EMM386 + FREECOM + MSDOS   KERNEL seems to work.

Final conclusion seems to be FreeDOS memory managers (FDXMS/HIMEM) consume 1MB too much, or MEM is flawed.

Michael might be able to solve that puzzle.


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