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xms

• Posted by Jean Hendrickx <jean.hendrickx at EURONET.BE> Sep 01, 1997
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Concerning the demo of Jacques Deschenes around 14 Aug 97.
Hello Jacques,
I try your code for getting information about available memory.
Here are the results on my pc and below those from Dos mem cmd.
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Whith Freexms.ex (so named) :
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00h Largest available free block = 136019968 bytes
04h Maximum unlocked pages allocation = 33208 pages
08h Maximum locked pages allocation =  3253 pages
0Ch total virtual memory =  136560640
10h Total number of unlocked pages =  3259
14h Number of free pages = 3154
18h Total number of physical pages=  3274 (  13410304 bytes)
1Ch free linear address space = 33220 pages
20h size of paging file =         0 pages
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DOS MEM /C command :
Memory Summary:
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  Type of Memory       Total   =    Used    +    Free
  ----------------  ----------   ----------   ----------
  Conventional         655 360       55 632      599 728
  Upper                158 640      143 216       15 424
  Reserved             393 216      393 216            0
  Extended (XMS)    15 570 000    2 542 672   13 027 328
  ----------------  ----------   ----------   ----------
  Total memory      16 777 216    3 134 736   13 642 480
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  Total under 1 MB     814 000      198 848      615 152
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Largest executable program size       585K (598 992 bytes)
Largest free upper memory block        14K  (14 656 bytes)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.
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Freexms seems to display a digit to much since
I have only 13 Mb of XMS ? have I overlooked something ?
Regards,
-- Jean Hendrickx. j.hendrickx at euronet.be