Re: Loading Yarn High-- Some Advantages
From: rex (rex@ptw.com)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 12:10:09 -0700
jstanley@gate.net (John A. Stanley) wrote:
>
>In article <199806280346.UAA04389@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>,
>Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:
[snip]
>>and runs mem, one learns that, in DOS's
>>view, yarnx is loaded in ``low'', conventional memory -- consuming
>>actually almost half of it. Of course, yarnx doesnt care because its
>>dos extender lets it use all the ram it needs.
>
>I run Yarn95 in a DOS window, and with Yarn, two Netscape windows,
>NetTerm, and SouperGUI all running I get the following when I ! to a
>DOS prompt and run mem:
>
>C:\YARN>mem
>
>Memory Type Total Used Free
>---------------- -------- -------- --------
>Conventional 640K 62K 578K
>Upper 0K 0K 0K
>Reserved 384K 384K 0K
>Extended (XMS) 64,512K ? 97,120K
>---------------- -------- -------- --------
>Total memory 65,536K ? 97,698K
>
>Total under 1 MB 640K 62K 578K
>
>Largest executable program size 578K (591,792 bytes)
>Largest free upper memory block 0K (0 bytes)
>MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
I get very similar results to yours using the DOS (not the Win95)
version of yarnx.exe.
-rex