xms
- Posted by Jean Hendrickx <jean.hendrickx at EURONET.BE> Sep 04, 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. --SNIP--- Jacques Deschenes wrote : > Salut Jean, > the number at offset 00h doesn't only give real memory it give > the total memory including virtual memory. --SNIP--- > 08h Maximum locked pages allocation = 3253 pages > multiply this number by 4096 and you get 3253*4096= 13 324 288 bytes > which is the amount of real memory or xms avaible to your application > becaused only real memory can be locked ( as this term means don't swap > it to disk). > Hoping this clarify things, > Jacques Deschenes Baie-Comeau, Quebec Canada desja at globetrotter.qc.ca Hello Jacques, Thanks for giving me these explanations. As you saw I am unaware of memory handlings. It's clear now. -- Jean Hendrickx. j.hendrickx at euronet.be