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by mark254 1993 days ago
Well, using "himem.sys" you could make use of RAM above 1MB... I used it to write a sort utility that only uses temp files when RAM was exhausted.

On my 386 with 4MB total RAM I could use about 3.7 or so, the rest was a shadowed BIOS copy. (Never tried to deactivate that, perhaps it would have been relocated and then made available?)