Day, Incorrect. The himem.sys driver is needed for DOS to be able to use the upper memory blocks of conventional memory space. The emm386 driver is used to create and manage access to either EMS or XMS or both. The himem driver is run first, then emm386.
Unless a whole bunch of drivers are loaded, or one has a weird video card, or network cards, or other things that map their BIOS extensions into high memory, there should be 520k to 540k on a bad day, and 596k to 620k on a good day. If there are not a bunch of drivers, no network card, no SCSI cards, no exotic video, then I would certainly expect more than 540k of available low memory. Sometimes simply changing the order in which things load will fix it. Another thing is making sure that a long PATH= setting does not come before loading the drivers (the current PATH is stored when they load). Tuning for maximum memory is somewhere between art and science. I've always been able to beat MemMaker at this game. I'm more stubborn that it is. ~~Garry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- Date sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:59:51 -0600 From: Day Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I dunno, but with drdos, you run either himem.sys > or emm386, but not both. There may be some redundancy. > AFAIK, himem is for 286 class systems. > > In any case, my exoerience has been that drdos will > run win 3.1 better and faster than msdos. > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
