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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:12:28 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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Patrick -

All BIOSs have limitations (theirs and the MotherBoard and the
chipsets).

WinDoes is designed to NOT really support DOS applications. (Bill says
DOS doesn't exist).

DOS by MS is just a kludge to make WinDoes work.

There are some valid limitations in the DR-DOS memory manager.

I prefer 386MAX 6.02 (with all patches) for my usage.

QEMM seemed to be very inefficient and later 386MAX offerings did not
like my
programs.

DR-DOS has several distinct versions and variations of them, so generic
referral to
"DR-DOS" is not a good approach.  Always refer to Version and File
dates.

It is always a trial and error effort :=)

Neal



Patrick Moran wrote:
> 
> My brother runs WIN95. I set up a DOS MODE only setup for him to run his DOS
> games and he has much better success with them than he had with DRDOS.
> However, there is something weird about his system and BIOS, because games
> that woud not work on his system with DRDOS worked fine on my system. I do
> need to install QEMM 8 on his sytem to get some programs that need huge
> amounts of conventional memory to work with MS DOS 7. Memory management does
> not sem to be very good with MS DOS 7, so a third party memory manager such
> as QEMM  or 386MAX needs to be used.
> 
> Pat
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Lueck" <mlueck AT lueckdatasystems DOT com>
> To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 8:49 AM
> Subject: Re: Dos future?
> 
> > On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 06:53:54 -0800 (PST), Jim Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > >HOw likely and soon should we have a Dos that works with fat32?
> >
> > For simple stuff, MS DOS 7 (aka Win98SE) is not bad. I use that to image
> > Windows 2000 on FAT32. I actually would not call that task simple either.
> It
> > uses InfoZip32, CWSDPMI, DOSLFNBK, a 64MB RAM Drive from Europe to cache
> the
> > zip files from the server, another European RAM Drive came with a
> secondary
> > device driver to dummy drive letters so I can ensure the ramdrive is
> always H:,
> > etc... My next project is to build a small bootable Windows 2000 partition
> > based on the install disks to mount and access NTFS directly.
> >
> > For running games and such, I have no idea how well MS DOS 7 works.
> >
> > Michael Lueck
> > Lueck Data Systems
> > http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/
> >
>