Hi Jamie, > 028d 33,136 (32K) HIMEM2 device driver > XMSXXXX0 installed DEVICE=HIMEM2
Non-Microsoft HIMEM alternatives are smaller ;-) > 0aa5 10,464 (10K) IBMDSS14 device driver > installed DEVICE=IBMDSS14 > 0d34 25,824 (25K) IBMDOSCS device driver > installed DEVICE=IBMDOSCS What is the purpose of those? Are you sure to need them? > Upper Memory is not accessible > Memory Type Total Used Free > ---------------- -------- -------- -------- > Conventional 638K 104K 534K That sounds like a medium amount to me... > FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area. > DEVICE=C:\CRYSTAL\CS4232C.EXE Something soundcard related which does not stay in RAM? > DEVICEHIGH=c:\IBMDSS14.SYS > DEVICEHIGH=c:\IBMDOSCS.SYS See above, what is this? > DEVICEHIGH=c:\DICRMU01.SYS /MA=D000-D7FF /SH=1 /IX=5,10,11,15 And what is that? > I noticed that these device lines are not longer working but I think > it's cause I don't have a UMB driver. I need to re-install them anyways > since I accidentally deleted one of them. I think it just falls back to loading low, but you can explicitly change DEVICEHIGH into DEVICE to try out. > C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X Are you sure that Windows SMARTDRV is a good cache for you? It is not shown in your MEM output, does it fail to load? > Win /2 So you use DOS only for Windows? Interesting. You may want to check out the HXRT extender which can run basic Windows software without needing Windows. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
