OmniBook 300/425 - Freeing up conventional memory

[Dave Britten]

Okay, found where it hides the temp file, so it's definitely doing disk swapping. Makes me wonder why you can configure the memory requirements for program entries if they get all the RAM anyway. I'll bet RAMDRIVE.SYS would be an easy way to make it use XMS.

I do see behavior differences between my 200LX and OB300, though. On the 200LX, I can't alt-tab away from EDIT for some reason, and whenever I switch back to DOSSHELL, it redoes its disk inventory as though it's been freshly launched. All settings are the same as far as I can tell.

Related question: do you know of any guides to getting everything in place to run Windows in 368 mode? Or any other good DOS-based operating environments that offer 386 task-switching?