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From: pfrennin@altos86.Altos.COM (Peter Frenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Where is Windows 386 3.0?
Message-ID: <3439@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 3 May 90 01:16:59 GMT
References: <5939@ucrmath.UCR.EDU> <1990May1.161528.7480@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <1990May2.014454.6423@agate.berkeley.edu> <922@metapyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: pfrennin@altos86.UUCP (Peter Frenning)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <922@metapyr.UUCP> david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson) writes:
 >Microsoft IS going it's own route with DOS extenders.  With C6.0 Microsoft 
 >brought out its DPMI (Dos Protected Mode Interface) which they say they need
 >to provide protected mode capabilities needed for multitasking - abilities they
 >say are not otherwise available.  DPMI is not VCPI compatible, so extended
 >memory managers like QEMM and 386^MAX cannot be used at the same time.  
 >To be fair Microsoft does supply HIMEM.SYS, SMARTDRV.SYS, and RAMDRIVE.SYS, but                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >I'm unhappy at losing my expanded memory capabilities.

.............. as well as EMM386.SYS (with 3.0), which does exactly what you
want done. BTW: SMARTDRV.SYS is the best disk-caching utility I've seen,
CORETEST, which gives me a figure of slightly over 600Kb/s when talking directly
to the disk (Adaptec RLL/Priam 230 Mb drive), says 4.6 Mb/s when using SMARTDRV.
When configured with 4Mb RAM it load windows 386 (2.11) in abaout 8 sec's the
second time, as opposed to 23 sec's the first.(25 MHz 386)

I for one cannot wait to have an official release of "the OS/2 killer" and
applications like Ami, Excel and other 3.0 compatible applications on my
machine.

- Peter