[Freedos-devel] [SPAM] Re: New Old Timer reporting :-)

2020-11-27 Thread zz zz
  hi   > DOS memory manager historically limit the amount of RAM via EMM/EMS to 32 or 64MB of RAM. That ought to be enough for anyone really interested in programming for DOS.    interesting, that'd be my main interest: the more usable RAM the more *any* program could do, specially a server.

[Freedos-devel] Stretching DOS limitations

2020-11-27 Thread Eric Auer
(Reply to a mail in "New Old-Timer Reporting") Hi! Actually the 32 or 64 MB limit only affects EMS. If you use XMS or a 32-bit protected mode DOS extender / DPMI, you can easily use 2-4 GB of RAM, depending on how much is reserved for 32-bit access to your graphics card etc. Recently, Japheth