From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
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Subject: Re: Memory usage question!
Date: 19 Aug 1999 17:06:08 GMT
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Rolf Campbell (cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com) wrote:
: Eli Zaretskii wrote:
: 
: > On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Rolf Campbell wrote:
: > >     But, that won't let you choose more than 65Megs (even if you type it
: > > manually).
: > Did you actually try this on a machine with more that 64MB of physical
: > memory, and Windows refused to accept the value?  If so, I need to update
: > the FAQ with this info.
: 
:     Yes.  My machine at home has 128Megs of physical RAM.  And Win98 (and
: Win95 as well) still does not let me type more than 65535 kilobytes for DPMI
: memory.  But, the 'auto' setting uses whatever is available.  So on machines
: with more than 64 Megs of RAM, 'auto' is probably the best setting.

Yes, this so on my box too.


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