How can i get more low memory with the following setup:

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Published on 2012-06-10T03:05:38Z Indexed on 2012/06/10 4:42 UTC
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Modules using memory below 1 MB:

  Name           Total       =   Conventional   +   Upper Memory
  --------  ----------------   ----------------   ----------------
  MSDOS       14 317   (14K)     14 317   (14K)          0    (0K)
  HIMEM        1 120    (1K)      1 120    (1K)          0    (0K)
  EMM386       3 120    (3K)      3 120    (3K)          0    (0K)
  OAKCDROM    36 064   (35K)     36 064   (35K)          0    (0K)
  POWER           80    (0K)         80    (0K)          0    (0K)
  NLSFUNC      2 784    (3K)      2 784    (3K)          0    (0K)
  COMMAND      2 928    (3K)      2 928    (3K)          0    (0K)
  MSCDEX      15 712   (15K)     15 712   (15K)          0    (0K)
  SMARTDRV    30 384   (30K)     13 984   (14K)     16 400   (16K)
  KEYB         6 752    (7K)      6 752    (7K)          0    (0K)
  MOUSE       17 296   (17K)     17 296   (17K)          0    (0K)
  DISPLAY      8 336    (8K)          0    (0K)      8 336    (8K)
  SETVER         512    (1K)          0    (0K)        512    (1K)
  DOSKEY       4 144    (4K)          0    (0K)      4 144    (4K)
  POWER        4 672    (5K)          0    (0K)      4 672    (5K)
  Free       552 944  (540K)    539 088  (526K)     13 856   (14K)

Memory Summary:

  Type of Memory       Total   =    Used    +    Free
  ----------------  ----------   ----------   ----------
  Conventional         653 312      114 224      539 088
  Upper                 47 920       34 064       13 856
  Reserved                   0            0            0
  Extended (XMS)*   64 898 256    2 671 824   62 226 432
  ----------------  ----------   ----------   ----------
  Total memory      65 599 488    2 820 112   62 779 376

  Total under 1 MB     701 232      148 288      552 944

  Total Expanded (EMS)                33 947 648 (33 152K
  Free Expanded (EMS)*                33 538 048 (32 752K

  * EMM386 is using XMS memory to simulate EMS memory as needed.
    Free EMS memory may change as free XMS memory changes.

  Largest executable program size        538 976   (526K)
  Largest free upper memory block          7 488     (7K)
  MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

I'm running MS-DOS 6.22 on VMWare virtual hardware. This is memory state after memmaker pass, so i'm looking for optimization beyond memmaker.

Note: NLS drivers (DISPLAY, KEYB, NSLFUNC) are essential for me.


Thanks to @mtone for valuable reminder about MSCDEX /E which gave me 16KiB of low memory (see the diff)!

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