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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: DRDOS 7.03 Woes
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:02:47 +1000
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Well, I understand from previous discussions that you can load M$
HIMEM.SYS (from W9X?) before DR-DOS EMM386, to get more
than 64K available.

WRT stability, I don't enable the EMM386 multitasking support or
it's DPMI (I use CWSDPMI if needed). I also don't use aggressive
memory remapping, just the normal auto-detected stuff plus, if
necessary, any region I'm 100% sure is available. That avoids
stability problems for all app's except those based on old versions
of the Causeway DOS extender, in which case I re-stub such an
app with the current version of the extender.

Hope that helps.

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joe Smith [SMTP:Joe DOT Smith AT 3dlabs DOT com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 13, 2002 7:36 PM
> To:	'opendos AT delorie DOT com'
> Subject:	DRDOS 7.03 Woes
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I could use some help.  I recently acquired a Socket 7 Mobo with Pentium
> 100
> to replace ageing 486 based mobo, and I have installed 128MB RAM, big HDD
> etc - a real DOS beast!  However DRDOS 7.03 only seems to recognise 64MB
> of
> RAM.  Is this normal?  Is there an explanation?  What do I need to do?
> 
> Also I am seeing EMM386.EXE protection errors from time to time... Any
> assistance on EMM386.EXE set up would be appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Joe Smith - Vendor Account Manager (Semiconductors)
> 3Dlabs Ltd
> Meadlake Place, Thorpe Lea Road
> Egham TW20 8HE, Surrey, England
> Tel : (0044) 1784 476709
> Fax : (0044) 1784470699
> 
> Internet : http://www.3dlabs.com
>