This is the result using the command mem/c | more Conventional Memory : Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex ------------- --------------------- ------------- MSDOS 16016 ( 15.6K) 3E90 SETVER 400 ( 0.4K) 190 HIMEM 1184 ( 1.2K) 4A0 EMM386 8400 ( 8.2K) 20D0 COMMAND 3392 ( 3.3K) D40 FREE 64 ( 0.1K) 40 FREE 625680 (611.0K) 98C10 Total FREE : 625744 (611.1K) Upper Memory : Name Size in Decimal Size in Hex ------------- --------------------- ------------- SYSTEM 180224 (176.0K) 2C000 MOUSE 14816 ( 14.5K) 39E0 AC 240 ( 0.2K) F0 ANSI 4192 ( 4.1K) 1060 RAMDRIVE 1184 ( 1.2K) 4A0 SMARTDRV 22368 ( 21.8K) 5760 SHARE 6192 ( 6.0K) 1830 FASTOPEN 5600 ( 5.5K) 15E0 FREE 160 ( 0.2K) A0 FREE 176 ( 0.2K) B0 FREE 26800 ( 26.2K) 68B0 Total FREE : 27136 ( 26.5K) Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) : 652880 (637.6K) Largest executable program size : 625504 (610.8K) Largest available upper memory block : 26800 ( 26.2K) 5636096 bytes total contiguous extended memory 0 bytes available contiguous extended memory 2255872 bytes available XMS memory MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area The Config.sys looks like this: DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE BREAK=ON BUFFERS=30 FILES=40 STACKS=9,128 LASTDRIVE=L SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /e:1024 /p DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.SYS /Y devicehigh=c:\dos\ac.sys com3=3E8 DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 1024 512 64/e DEVICEhigh=C:\DOS\smartdrv.sys 2048 1024 DOS=HIGH,UMB The autoexec.bat like this: @ echo off C:\mouse\mouse.com (We have a program that insists upon this!!) REM set comspec=c:\command.com PATH C:\DOS;c:\;c:\windows;c:\batch;c:\zip;c:\w4w;c:\nort;d:\;e:\;f:\;g:\;h:\ ADDPATH f:\toolbook prompt $p$g$_ ver set TEMP=i:\ LOADHIGH C:\DOS\SHARE.EXE loadhigh c:\dos\fastopen.exe c:=50 @ echo on We run on a 386SX;Ami bios;DFI board(they're great) w/6mg;Perstor ADRC9008 on two 40mg hardrives formatted to 76mg ea. Windows is reliable although at times quirky! It runs reasonably fast although I've not timed various tasks. So much for the naysayers, the Microsoft bashers, etc! DRI took a long, long time to make their DOS version available to large numbers of people at a reasonable price. Just very recently under $100. Their old CPM operating systems are still up there in never-never land. This criticism is also true of the OS2 phenomena. My shelves above my computer will also hold QEMM;QRAM; etc.! I'm tired of folks hammering Microsoft for being less than perfect, but primarily for doing very well! It's been very sour grapes. Lois Laulicht