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From: brian@premise.ZONE1.COM (Brian Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows 386 on Gateway 386/33 messes up DOS apps...
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Date: 12 Jan 90 13:47:37 GMT
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A friend of mine has a Gateway 386/20 -- Under Windows 386, one version of 
the motherboard has exactly the behavior that you describe.  It turns out that
the motherboard (NOT a Micronix) was at fault -- something really weird with
the DMA arrangement or something.  Also, another manifestation of this problem
is if you run a Microsoft Windows program that uses the Math emulation library
(win87em.exe) and then try to bring up a chart in Excel without exiting windows
first, the machine locks up TIGHT.  We gave up trying to software patch the
Excel hang, and he swapped for a Micronix motherboard. Gateway is apparently
aware of problems, since they offer such a swap.



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