[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Name Total Conventional Upper Memory
-------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
SYSTEM 16,192 (16K) 9,888 (10K) 6,304 (6K)
HIMEM 2,480 (2K) 2,480 (2K) 0 (0K)
EMM386 3,200 (3K) 3,200 (3K) 0 (0K)
COMMAND 3,264 (3K) 2,944 (3K) 320 (0K)
MOUSE 3,328 (3K) 0 (0K) 3,328 (3K)
Free 757,680 (740K) 636,560 (622K) 121,120 (118K)
a dump against MSDOS would be interesting, with same kind of programs
loaded.
*FreeDOS kernel uses 64KB of extended memory, the so-called HMA
*HIMEM might have a tiny bit of XMS usage, next to also providing it.
*EMM386 has some buffers/overhead in XMS.
*COMMAND uses about 200KB of XMS
Maybe FreeDOS MEM should have an additional column for 'XMS' instead of
only 'Conventional and Upper Memory' if it would fit.
And a column for 'program version' perhaps.
Memory Type Total Used Free
---------------- -------- -------- --------
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
Is there any way to recover this memory?
I doubt there are ways, unless you want to use more conventional memory
instead. the HMA area is never recoverable to my knowledge.
You hardly use UMBs (upper memory) so using UMBPCI instead of EMM386
might do fine for you.
There's also a version of COMMAND (command is really known in FreeDOS
under the name "FREECOM") which does not support switching to XMS.
That would mean use of conventional memory increases to 160KB or so
instead of the 3KB.
Also you could try SHELLHIGH= instead of SHELL= in your config.sys
Thanks for posting such extensive output, it really helps.
Only thing missing is your used autoexec.bat, and (fd)config.sys file
contents.
All FreeDOS programs work/behave fine on that pretty old system?
Bernd
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