Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 1994 8:16:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Chris Tate <FIXER AT FAXCSL DOT DCRT DOT NIH DOT GOV>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: DOS 6.2 and windows memory.

sasbnb AT unx DOT sas DOT com writes:
>
> I have QEMM 6.? and dos 5. Windows refuses to run under qemm so I have
> set up a special autoexec and config for windows that uses himem.sys
> and the usual dos/windows setup junk. BUT!!!!! It only sees 16 of my
> 32 Mb (which aggravates me to no end). My standard setup uses qemm
> to manage memory, and go32 reports that most of my 32 MB is usable.

I run Windows 3.1, and now WFW 3.11, just fine under DOS 5.0 and 
QEMM 7.03.  You really ought to upgrade to QEMM 7+.

However:  from what I've been told, I gather than Windows *cannot*
use more than 16 MB of memory, regardless of your system configuration.
That's right - cannot.  This is IMHO one of the most crippled aspects
of Windows.

I have a 32MB machine, and I set aside 8MB for a ram disk, another 8 or
so for the Norton cache (v. 8), and run Windows with what's left,
without any swap file.  Pretty zippy, now that I've got a SpeedStar Pro
video card, too.  :-)

-- Chris Tate
   fixer AT faxcsl DOT dcrt DOT nih DOT gov

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