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Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 15:53:03 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Virtual memory
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Paul Richards wrote:
> 
> John S. Fine writes,
>
> >  I assume you are running a DJGPP program in a DOS session.
> >Right click the title bar and select properties/memory and
> >then click on the number or "auto" for DPMI.  DO NOT click
> >the value menu pull down thing (that lets you select from
> >suggested values).  Click in the value itself and type over
> >it with the max amount of memory you want in KB (such as
> >65536 for 64Mb).  Click OK and then close the DOS session.
> >From then on whenever you open that DOS session, your
> >DPMI programs will be permitted that amount of memory.
> >
> >  Tell me if it works.
> Well it works, but only up to 64Meg.  I wanna be able to use several
> hundred at least...  :)  After all 32bit addresses can have up to 4Gb...

Too bad, then.  Ask Bill Gates about it.

CWSDPMI supports in theory up to about 512MB, but currently has some
bugs if more than 64MB of that is physical (but HIMEM has troubles with
more, anyway).  You can have 256MB of swap in there too, though.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com