Re: available memory

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Paul Lagasse wrote:
> Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> > I found a boot floppy from the days of NovelL DOS (and that, recall, was
> > what TTG ran Xy on--not Microsludge or even IBM, but Novell; it's still
> > around, but I cannot think under what name). Files was 255, buffers 20, and
> > DOS was loaded high and UMB. FWIW.
> Thanks for the info. 255 seems high, unless you had special needs, since that
> was the max, I think. Your boot floppy find got me to look again for mine,
> but it's still not there -- however, I did look in the Xy install disks this
> time (several 4.x versions) and XYWRITE.INF checks to see that Files is set
> to at least 28; nothing about buffers. (8 was the MSDOS minimum. 30 is the
> standard Dosemu Files setting, and my old Win98 book says 30 too.)
Extremely high--Paul is right, 255 is the maximum. I looked at my
CONFIG.SYS on DOS 6.1, and it has files=60 and buffers=20. Those were
settings inherited with the machine and may have no particular virtue.
(I looked for an older set-up saved on floppy but didn't find it. I seem
to recall both files and buffers being in the 20s on my first PC, circa
1990). Like Patricia, I have DOS=HIGH,UMB.
In my set up in VPC 6.0 on the Mac, which came with PC DOS 7.0, revision
1, the factory (Connectix) CONFIG.SYS, which I've never changed, has
FILES=30, BUFFERS=10.
Patricia, do you think you had files at 255 for a special reason? Under
DOS, such a high setting would have bought simultaneous files open at the
expense of less space for programs and data.
While looking in the XY3 manual (remember that annoying three-ring
binding, anyone?), I found something interesting and think I'll scan it
for a forthcoming message. It's not a setting for buffers, but closely
related to the current discussions.

Carlo Caballero
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