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ATonce

    17-Nov-91 19:11:00
Sb: #13193-ATonce
Fm: Alex Baker 75606,563
To: George Ellis 71570,2267
IBM programs (such as games) running under MS-DOS, susally have more files, because they are limited to 640K, for most purposes. They wind up having overlay files to swap in and out to allow the full range of functions within the 640K limit. Even with windows, all you get is a bunch of programs designed to run in a 640K environment. After you load Dos, you are down to about 530K, (unless you are running 5.0 on a 80286 or better machine, or some other Dos enhancer on a higher end unit.) With the Amiga, they just tell you to go out and buy another meg or 2 of memory. First time I showed a Dos user a program that required 2 meg. He looked at the docs, and about choked. Many times got folks at users groups excited over the amount of available memory at the top of work bench. (You got 5 megs in there! And you can access all of it!)