Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!csustan!csun!abcscnge From: abcscnge@csun.UUCP (Scott Neugroschl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 Message-ID: <939@csun.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 19:54:16 EST Article-I.D.: csun.939 Posted: Thu Dec 3 19:54:16 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 03:21:22 EST References: <164300022@uiucdcsb> Reply-To: abcscnge@csun.UUCP (Scott Neugroschl) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 17 In article <164300022@uiucdcsb> blanken@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >I am interested in finding out some info on DOS 3.3. I heard it rumored >that 3.3 was supposed to break the 640k RAM barrier No, no, no... DOS 3.3 is DOS 3.2 but better. 3.3 allows what clone users have had for a while -- support for file systems on a hard disk bigger than 32MB. Your partitions still have to be 32MB or less, but they can now all be accessed from DOS. DOS 3.3 is still real mode, so you are limited to 1MB address space, with 384K reserved for I/O, ROM, etc... leaving you with the traditional DOS 640K barrier. To go protected, you have to get OS/2 or UNIX (Uport, or XENIX). -- Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl UUCP: {litvax,humboldt,sdcrdcf,rdlvax,ttidca,}\_ csun!abcscnge {psivax,csustan,nsc-sca,trwspf }/ -- "They also surf who stand on waves"