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I figured it out - it was memmaker. It automatically edited autoexec.bat (and possibly also config.sys, I'm not sure).
Ah, yeah, I think that may actually have been a paid program. It was something folks were willing to pay not to have to do, because, as I say, it was surprisingly tricky to manage the memory below 640K.
Well, at least in our case, it wasn't something that we bought. I'm pretty sure it came with our MS-DOS.
Oh, you're right, it's right there in the link you shared--it was built in to MS-DOS, but only from version 6 on. I must have misremembered it as paid because it was something we didn't have, and then later we did.