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  Msg # 102 of 183 on FDOS--67, Thursday 7-06-16, 1:08  
  From: KURT WEISKE  
  To: SERGEY DOROZHKIN  
  Subj: Memory optimization  
    Re: Memory optimization  
   By: Sergey Dorozhkin to All on Fri Jul 01 2016 09:35 am  
    
   SD> Restore old 486dx5 133MHz PC. That PC have only 24Mb RAM. How optimize  
  mem  
   SD> 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.  
  --- SBBSecho 3.00-Win32  
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