> But being MS-DOS 5.0 published when it was, after the quarrel with > IBM, I can just speculate that if MS-DOS 5.0 needed more > conventional memory, IFS would have been one of the first things to > go. Which is a pity, because from those articles one can infer that > it tried to make mounting file systems less reliant on MS-DOS > internal structures. A good idea for which your 16-bit PC has not > enough memory :)
I'm doing experiments with my TSR's that allow them to use MUCH less memory than normal by putting parts of themselves into EMS or DPMS memory. Using these methods, it's possible to make even a really big, complicated TSR or device driver require only a few kB of Conventional or Upper Memory. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel