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From: greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg F. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview 386 Problems
Message-ID: <202@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Date: 9 Aug 89 14:58:45 GMT
References: <632@dtix.ARPA> <2520@astroatc.UUCP> <358@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg F. Thompson)
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In article <358@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>Actually, DV/386 can give more than 640K to programs, but not much, and probably
>not to someone using VP.  I have a Hercules clone card, and since it doesn't use
>the memory between addresses A0000 and AFFFF, DV's QEMM gives this to programs.
>After loading drivers etc, programs typically get about 650K.  But I doubt anyone
>would use Ventura on a Hercules card.
>
>Duncan Murdoch
I installed DV/386 on an Epson 386 with Hercules graphics and with 4 megs of
extended memory.  After specifying RAM on the QEMM command line, chkdsk 
reports 720k!  But in dv (xdv) it reports that I can open windows of only
640k (well the first gets 644k).


Gregg
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