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From: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: EMS
Message-ID: <3876.2625f50e@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 90 19:49:34 GMT
References: <3238@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au>
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In article <3238@moondance.cs.uq.oz.au>, iain@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Iain Fogg)
writes:
> I recently downloaded EMS40V11.ARC from SIMTEL-20. My old EMS driver was
> version 3.4 and 4DOS complains a bit with that loaded. I have installed
> the new driver and the 4DOS problem has disappeared, but I am a bit
> confused about a couple of things. I hope someone can help.
> 
> BTW I have a 386 clone with 4M of RAM - 3M extended.
> 
> When the EMS driver is installed it displays the following message on
> the screen:
> 
> 	EMS 4.0 Simulator, Ver. 1.1 (C) 1989 Ziff Communications
> 	PC Magazine + Douglas Boling
>	[rest of story deleted]

Well, first of all, if you have a 386, you shouldn't be using PC Mag's EMS
simulator, since that was designed to work on 286 machines and won't take
advantage of the features of the 386.  So yes, you are wasting memory - you
should get Qualitas' 386 to the Max, or Quarterdeck's QEMM-386.

The 384K is already above the 1MB boundary, so you don't have to worry about
that.

-Sanjay Aiyagari (HD7X@vax5.cit.cornell.edu)