Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 20:24:33 +0100 From: Kim Jersin To: pgolda AT eleceng DOT uct DOT ac DOT za Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: GnuC memory allocation and swapping do disk. Hi, Pete You wrote (shortend): > So, I have 16 meg ram right now, of which 4 meg is going to EMM386 > EMS. It should not be nessesary to set asside memory availeble for EMS/VCPI usage only. EMM386 present in dos 6.x is able to share XMS/EMS memory. The memory starts of being XMS and is converted for EMS/VCPI usage when required and put back to XMS when released. I'am pretty sure I have seen some explanation of this in MS-DOS help.exe with topic under notes. --- Kim Jersin.