On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:21:04 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
<billurie@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>I have a buddy who installed VPC2004, and installed DOS 6.22...
>And when he tried to load an APL language system, he got the
>"not enough memory" error. He has it set for 128 Meg.
>
>Well, I'll grant that it isn't exactly the same thing,
>but I have that APL system running under 98 in my VPC2004
>with 420 M......and when I drop the memory to 125 M,
>everything still runs fine.
>
>Any advice I can pass along to him? He needs 6.22 because he has
>some old DOS software that won't run anywhere else.
>
> Thanks
I don't think that MSDOS 6.22 could handle 128 Mb RAM. At that time
all you had was 1 Mb RAM, which was divided into 640 kb for the
operating system and the remainder for system devices.
He should drop RAM way below 128Mb for this guest, prbably to 8 Mb or
so and then try an EMS handler to make use of that memory from MSDOS.
Can be tricky.
In Win98 those details were handled by Windows and a DOS window only
got what it needed from the available RAM to Win98.
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Bo Berglund (Sweden)