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From: "Da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT DaSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: DOS and WIN/98
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:58:41 +1100
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Hmmm. Performance is always given as a reason to avoid loading
16 bit drivers, ie. relying on the 32 bit drivers that Windoze uses
instead. Well, firstly I have yet to see ANY 32 bit stuff give much
better performance than 16 bit stuff - sure, sometimes there's a
little extra performance, but often it's negligible or even negative.
Secondly, Windoze often supplants the 16 bit drivers anyway, so
I don't see any problem with having these loaded, just in case
they're needed.

As for M$W-ME ... I wouldn't dream of touching it!!!  <g>

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Vidmantas Balciunas [SMTP:vibal AT lrtc DOT lt]
> Sent:	Wednesday, 24 January 2001 11:50
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	RE: DOS and WIN/98
> 
> >What is more, my M$W95B / M$D7.10 is set-up as a
> >traditional Windoze-over-DOS installation, ALA M$W3.X.
> >Windoze is only started-up by "WIN" in AUTOEXEC.BAT,
> >and then only if I answer "Y" to the "Windoze?" prompt!
> 
> Why ? It's more nice use multiconfig boot feature. It lets you
> to use your CD, disk cache, etc. in plain DOS, and when you want 
> Windoze, you run it with no DOS CD-ROM drivers & other unnecessary
> features (and performance problems).
> Sorry, but this works fine only on MS-DOS 7.0 & 7.1 (Win 95 / 98 / 98SE)
> and not on WinME. Milenium Edition uses MS-DOS 8.0 with no support
> for multicinfig booting when booting from hard disk (I don't know why ??!)
> It still works fine when booting from floppy or CD. MS goes crazy...
> 
> Vidas
> 
> ------------------------------- CONFIG.SYS -------------------------
> [menu]
> MENUITEM=w98,Windows'98 SE
> MENUITEM=dos,MS-DOS 7.1
> MENUDEFAULT=w98,10
> 
> [w98]
> FCBSHIGH=1
> FILESHIGH=65
> STACKSHIGH=0,0
>  
> [dos]
> BUFFERSHIGH=50,0
> FCBSHIGH=1
> FILESHIGH=50
> LASTDRIVEHIGH=F
> STACKSHIGH=0,0
> DOS=UMB,HIGH
> DOS=SINGLE,NOAUTO
> DEVICE=D:\WIN98\HIMEM.SYS/TESTMEM:OFF
> DEVICE=D:\WIN98\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN
> DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEV\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:MSCD000 /Q
> 
> ------------------------------- AUTOEXEC.BAT -------------------------
> @ECHO OFF
> PATH %PATH%;D:\VC;D:\ARCH;D:\UTILS
> SET TMP=C:\TEMP
> SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
> GOTO %CONFIG%
> GOTO end
> 
> :dos
> LH D:\WIN98\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:15 /V
> SMARTDRV 2048
> LH VC
> GOTO end
> 
> :w98
> echo Hiroshima 45... Chernobyl 86... Welcome to Windows 98 SE...
> :end
> 
> ------------------------------- The End -------------------------
> 
> P.S. Edit paths and DOS CD-ROM driver name as needed.