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From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: :Memory Exhausted
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 19:52:06 -0500
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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QBallLives wrote:
> 
> I sincerely apologize Sinan.... but I do believe conventional memory (or lack
> thereof...) can have a significant impact on nearly any operation you'd want to
> perform...

DJGPP runs entirely in extended/expanded memory, except for about 90K of
convential memory initially and 19K or so for each nested program that
is used by the DPMI host.  That's what's so great about DPMI;
conventional memory becomes almost irrelevant.

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