From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: 64 MB with EMM386
Date:	Sat, 01 Feb 1997 20:01:37 GMT
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On 29 Jan 97 19:26:00 GMT, jacob AT wombaz DOT robin DOT de (Frank Jacob) wrote:

>Hello DJGPPler !
>
>For a project I am using a lot of memory. I have 64 MB RAM on my system,  
>but GO32-V2 shows only 33035 kB of RAM ! I tried to change some settings  
>in the config.sys and got that EMM386 has something to do with this. If I  
>don't load it while booting, GO32-V2 shows all (64711 kB), but I can't  
>load the other programs high, so I have only 511 kB free in the lower  
>memory, that is no solution. Is there anything else I can do ?

When EMM386 is loaded, it is acting as your DPMI host, and appears to
only give you 32Mb of RAM. If you don't load it, your programs will
load CWSDPMI on startup, which is quite happy to give you up to 256Mb
(128Mb physical and 128Mb virtual). The fact that you don't have much
base memory free shouldn't matter for DJGPP programs as they treat all
memory (almost) equally.

George Foot

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