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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 01:53:48 +0400 (MSD)
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Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8
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Hi!

14-σΕΞ-2002 23:45 guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es (Guti) wrote to <opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

>>     I will try the DOS=NOAUTO and tell you what happens.
>>     Maybe is as you say, and a conflict between QEMM and DOS 8. In anycase
>> it would be very strange since DOS 8 does not have quite improvements
>> against 7.10.
>> > 1. Don't know about 8.x, but in 7.x disabling of autoload controlled by
>> > DOS=AUTO and DOS=NOAUTO in config.sys.
>> > 2. Installed XMS manager shouldn't cause QEMM hanging - QEMM should give
>> > warning/error. Probably, there is conflict between QEMM and MS-DOS 8.x.
G>     No success, seems that the built-in XMS manager is incompatible with V86
G> mode, as QEMM 9 fails to load, also fails to load EMM386.
G>     Seems that I will need to install DOS 7.1 from Win98, and forget ME...

     Yes, dumping Me is not worser idea - it miss all strong properties of
NT/2k, but bigger (very fat) than 98 and have less compatabilities with DOS.