Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!garnett From: garnett@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Breaking the 640K Barrier Message-ID: <3116@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 13:54:44 EST Article-I.D.: batcompu.3116 Posted: Tue Dec 8 13:54:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 12:03:53 EST References: <164300022@uiucdcsb> <1094@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1189@homxb.UUCP> <1098@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <1816@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: garnett@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Garnett) Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 17 In article <1816@cup.portal.com> Isaac_K_Rabinovitch@cup.portal.com writes: >simrin@mis.ucsf.edu (Steve Simrin) writes: >->In article <1189@homxb.UUCP> mr@homxb.UUCP (mark) writes: >->> >->>I suspect that DOS 3.4 will fix the 640K [screwup]. (not 3.3) >->> >-> >->I don't think so. Breaking the 640k barrier is one of the 2 big >->features of OS/2 (multitasking being the other). If they fix DOS, it will >->cut the sales of OS/2 significantly. well, its not a ram fix, but, Compaq DOS 3.31 breaks the 32M disk partition limit. This feature should appear in MS DOS 3.4. (from PC Week, Dec 1) So... mayby we'll all get lucky and get more Ram too. okbye