From:	Eugene Ageenko <ageson AT cs DOT joensuu DOT fi>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: MSDOS + DPMI + Win98
Date:	Thu, 27 May 1999 19:21:06 +0300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 21 May 1999, taupin wrote:
> 
> > But I'm somewhat anxious about one problem: in order to have an amount
> > of memory sufficient under Win95, I was advised by Eli Zaretzki to push
> > the DPMI memory parameter of Win95/DOS up to 65535 (i.e. the power of 2
> > minus one).
> >
> > But on Win98, the manual posting is rejected so that I can only post
> > 16384, no more.
> 
> Are you sure?  Nobody has complained about this until now, so please
> describe *exactly* how did you try to set the DPMI memory property
> (all the clicks and all the keys you pressed) and what Windows said to
> the effect that it rejects the setting.

Richt click on Command (or DOS program icon)

Choose properties, choose tab Memory

there is "MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory"

I keep it 65535. The default values goes up to 16384, but it is
allowed to type 65535

It is the way it works in Win 95 OSR2

If Win98 limits this value to 16384, then you it is too bad for that
OS. :(

In my expirience, Windows will use the value set here, or
min(16384,available memory) if set for AUTO.

BTW there is no way to get more memory than 64 Mb for your task under
W95. (probably itis possible under Windows NT but you should have
enough RAM or your machine will die of swapping and probably blue the
screen)

Eugene Ageenko

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