From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: 64 MB with EMM386
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 07:59:48 -0800
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George Foot wrote:
[snip]
> 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.
That's a good thing :)
But won't the virtual memory be slower than the phisical one? Just
curious...
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