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Memory at segment 50h available for DOS? (Developers)

posted by marcov, 15.12.2008, 10:13

> I'm currently moving some data around that has to stay in the low memory
> area. Is there any data between address 0h:520h and 0h:600h? (That's
> between segment 50h and 60h except the few items described in RBIL 61's
> MEMORY.LST.) Does any program use this space?
>
> There's a large table I want to put there in one piece. It currently
> requires about 300 byte. When the upper 256 bytes are placed in segment
> 60h, it would require about 40 byte at the end of the 256-byte segment
> 50h.

Well, everybody that wrote a TSR and got the same idea. Of course you'll only find out later

Complete thread:

• Memory at segment 50h available for DOS? - ecm, 14.12.2008, 21:35 (Developers)
  • Memory at segment 50h available for DOS? - marcov, 15.12.2008, 10:13
  • Memory at segment 50h available for DOS? - mht, 15.12.2008, 11:18
    • Memory at segment 50h available for DOS? - ecm, 15.12.2008, 14:14