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    From Sergey Dorozhkin@1:2320/100 to All on Fri Jul 1 09:29:02 2016
    Restore old 486dx5 133MHz PC. That PC have only 24Mb RAM. How optimize mem utilization ?
    PS: use manual created config.sys and autoexec.bat

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  • From Mark Lewis@1:2320/100 to Sergey Dorozhkin on Fri Jul 1 11:55:02 2016
    Restore old 486dx5 133MHz PC. That PC have only 24Mb RAM. How optimize
    mem utilization ?

    PS: use manual created config.sys and autoexec.bat

    what memory manager are you using?

    are you setting up EMS and XMS memory types?

    my general recommendation on those older machines is to use QEMM for the memory manager and run its tuning process to allow it to optimize memory usage so that you have the most base memory available...

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  • From Sergey Dorozhkin@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Mon Jul 4 13:15:02 2016
    ==- Hello mark! -==


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    01 ?E2 16 o 11:47:

    what memory manager are you using?

    emm386

    are you setting up EMS and XMS memory types?

    Yes, set DOS=HIGH,UMB

    my general recommendation on those older machines is to use QEMM for
    the memory manager and run its tuning process to allow it to optimize memory usage so that you have the most base memory available...

    Ok, try use it.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:2320/100 to Sergey Dorozhkin on Wed Jul 6 09:56:02 2016
    Re: Memory optimization
    By: Sergey Dorozhkin to All on Fri Jul 01 2016 09:35 am

    Restore old 486dx5 133MHz PC. That PC have only 24Mb RAM. How optimize mem utilization ?

    Back in 1994, 24 megabytes was a LOT of RAM. If I remember right, you could use HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to optimize your DOS memory. HIMEM loads part of DOS in the memory between 640K and 1 meg, and EMM386.EXE lets programs access the other 23 megs of RAM.
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:2320/100 to Mark Lewis on Wed Jul 6 09:58:02 2016
    Re: Memory optimization
    By: mark lewis to Sergey Dorozhkin on Fri Jul 01 2016 11:47 am

    my general recommendation on those older machines is to use QEMM for the memory manager and run its tuning process to allow it to optimize memory usage so that you have the most base memory available...

    DOS 6.something and above came with memmaker; I ended up using it over QEMM because QEMM came up with better memory footprints, but it crashed more. And memmaker was free. :)
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  • From Phil Taylor@1:2320/100 to 5kurt Weiske on Fri Jul 22 18:00:34 2016
    Quoting Kurt Weiske to Sergey Dorozhkin <=-

    Re: Memory optimization
    By: Sergey Dorozhkin to All on Fri Jul 01 2016 09:35 am

    Restore old 486dx5 133MHz PC. That PC have only 24Mb RAM. How optimize mem utilization ?

    Back in 1994, 24 megabytes was a LOT of RAM. If I remember right, you could use HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to optimize your DOS memory. HIMEM loads part of DOS in the memory between 640K and 1 meg, and EMM386.EXE lets programs access the other 23 megs of RAM.


    Kurt

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