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How much memory does the PTS-DOS Windows mode occupy as compared to a MS-DOS/Windows machine?

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How much memory does the PTS-DOS Windows mode occupy as compared to a MS-DOS/Windows machine?

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Both experiments were done with the same 486SX-50/8M machine. MS-DOS running with EMM386 with EMS size of 3,072K, SmartDrive with 256K cache size, Genius mouse driver leaves free 564K conventional and 6,688K extended memory (total 7,252K). PTS-DOS running with EMM386 with 3,072K EMS size, PTSCache with 256K cache size, Genius mouse driver leaves free 597K(!) conventional and 6,658K extended memory (total 7,255K).

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