Re: increase base memory

[Stas Sergeev <stssppnn@yahoo.com>]

Hello.

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> if you run dosemu in "dumb" mode, well, f000 is even possible, ie., 
> 960k, if you disable EMS too.
Just one question: are we all using
a vidram/memmax here in the real dos?
Or do we already have a dosemu-specific
programs out there?:)
Of course having 960k is cool, and
knowing that dosemu can do something
more than you can do in a real dos is
also great, but what's the practical
use? Oh yes, it will allow you to not
"lh" your TSR's in autoexec, so if the
person knows what he/she do (ie will
not try VGA graphics and write the
useless bugreports later) then why not,
but still I don't see any real reasons.
So if the program requires 960K, then
it might just use XMS/EMS.
As for the original cobol problem, it
turned to be this:
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Yes, The cobol is Microfocus and using
XM for dosextender in real DOS.
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and also this:
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The application
has one option to show the tiff image.
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So in that case occupying the video
mem is definitely not an option.
And in general I really still see no
practical reasons for that.
Note that under dosemu you actually need
even less resident progs in your memory
than you need under a pure dos, as
dosemu does provide the basic drivers
(ems, xms etc) itself.
But well, if people just think it is
cool that we can do that, then I agree,
it is nice:) Esp in a terminal/dumb modes
where it is also safe due to no graphics...