On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister <damag...@hyakushiki.net> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > wrote:
>> FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of >> 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to >> applications. >> >> The box I have FreeDOS on has 256MB of RAM. I load HIMEM.SYS, and >> have a disk cache and a ramdisk in XMS memory. > > Isn`t XMGR.SYS the xms memory manager under FreeDOS? Loading HIMEM.SYS > seemed to cause a crash for me, although I could be wrong. It's HIMEM.EXE here in FreeDOS 1.0. (I misspoke calling it HIMEM.SYS.) >>> The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. >> >> Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? > > 16GB as in gigabytes is certainly believable these days, on a 64-bit > system. Believable but unlikely, unless it's a server. The consumer systems I've seen all have 3 - 8 GB. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
