Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!osu-eddie!elwell From: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MS-DOS Versions Message-ID: <2784@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 26-Dec-86 22:00:42 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.2784 Posted: Fri Dec 26 22:00:42 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Dec-86 05:36:38 EST References: <2418@ihlpa.UUCP> <174200005@uiucuxc> <1793@ncoast.UUCP> <919@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Reply-To: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell) Organization: The Ohio State University, CIS Dept. Lines: 22 ARGH!!! Maybe all that eggnog is addling some of the brains out there... It's not MS-DOS or PC-DOS that limits you to 640K, it's the IBM video card. The scene is Boca Raton... "Hey, Joe? Where should I put the video buffer?" "How about the middle of the address space? That way we'll have room for lots of nonexistent ROM expansions!" "Great, I'll do it!" In any case, I have run vanilla PC-DOS (no mods) with 960K of RAM available for normal program memory. Hint: It wasn't exactly on an IBM... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Computers will never replace the Clayton Elwell wastebasket when it comes to Elwell@Ohio-State.ARPA streamlining office work. ...!cbosgd!osu-eddie!elwell ----------------------------------------------------------------------