| 1. | Most DOS programs-- such as Doom-- require a majority of conventional memory.
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| 2. | LOADHIGH and other methods of freeing conventional memory have largely become obsolete.
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| 3. | In the end, we had optimal installation and 612K of conventional memory.
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| 4. | Windows 3 . x allocated " fixed " segments in conventional memory first.
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| 5. | I had only 484K in conventional memory, a marginal number.
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| 6. | Thus was born conventional memory, the first 640K, and upper memory, the remaining 384K.
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| 7. | That way, software squeezed by conventional memory can overflow into a pool of additional memory.
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| 8. | Most of the industry is sticking with conventional memory chips that run at 100 megahertz.
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| 9. | Also, it's one of the few DOS-based games that doesn't require huge amounts of conventional memory.
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| 10. | Conventional memory layout usually places one bit of many different correction words adjacent on a chip.
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