From: MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:08:30 GMT
Message-Id: <199701281208.MAA08127@milly>
To: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com, geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] EMM386 gets violent
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AFter a slight accident with the install program, I was finally able to
get OpenDOS working, but it seems to be quite buggy.

(Don't worry.. I always find bugs in OSes..)

The problem appears to lie in EMM386.  Everything works fine unless EMM386 is
running.  In this case, most protected-mode programs (DOOM, DUKE3d, WINDOWS)
reboot the system in an extremely messy fashion.

Currently I am using the EMM386 from my old DRDOS installation, but that nailed
the multitasking, and conventional memory is critically low.

I have tried all permutations of EMM386's switches (I was afraid of bugs in the
DPMI server.. Borland added features to Ergo286)

I do wonder if EMM386 is trying to do strange undocumented things: my CPU is
an AMD K5 device, not Intel.

Has anyone else had problems like that?
This might be the cause of the problems experienced by jdashiel..