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 Message 21 
 Kurt Weiske to Sergey Dorozhkin 
 Memory optimization 
 06 Jul 16 09:49:13 
 
  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.
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