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MEMORY
Purpose: Sets system memory allocation strategy.
Syntax: MEMORY=<[BESTFIT|FIRSTFIT|LASTFIT] [NOUMB|UMB]>
By default: MEMORY=FIRSTFIT NOUMB
Note:
This command is executed before the pass processing some commands like
INSTALL. The memory allocation strategy can be defined trough system calls.
FIRSTFIT - use the first acceptable memory block
BESTFIT - choose the block closest in size to that inquired
LASTFIT - use the last of the acceptable blocks
UMB - use UMB (only if DOS = UMB)
NOUMB - search for free memory only in the lower memory
Hence, the commands
MEMORY=FIRSTFIT UMB
INSTALL=filename
are equivalent to
INSTALLHIGH=filename
although, in the first case it is impossible to perform the simple INSTALL
command in view of the global action of the MEMORY command.