Re: [Freedos-user] RAM size

2015-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, replying to myself based on comments by Navis, with some interesting points about using 2 GB to 4 GB of RAM with DPMI based DOS extenders... :-) > Hi! If I have to guess, the latter (a DPMI call, I think) > deliberately returns at most 2 GB to avoid sign overflows > with software which uses 3

Re: [Freedos-user] RAM size

2015-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If I have to guess, the latter (a DPMI call, I think) deliberately returns at most 2 GB to avoid sign overflows with software which uses 32 bit signed computation of how much memory it has :-) Maybe DOS32A has an option to let you disable that limiting if you dare. Or try HDPMI32 or CWSDPMI in