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From: pasquale@sgl (Pasquale Leone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft's XMS spec
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Date: 16 Jul 90 22:56:19 GMT
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    Many have complained that their program that can use XMS memory
won't work under mswindows 3.0's HIMEM.SYS . This is because windows 3.0
and the new himem.sys does not comply with the XMS (eXtended Memory Spec)
as originally set out by microsoft and as used by MANY other companies.
(Desqview, Rational Systems, 4dos, etc)
They seem to think they can force everybody out of business by setting a
new incompatible "standard".

For those of you who want to know what programs use XMS mem here are some
Desqview, (it uses the first 64kbyte)
any program that uses a dos extender like
                                                   the new LOTUS123,
          MathLAB286 or 386,
          most pcboard routing packages,
          XILINX programmable gate array developement software,
Vdisk.sys?  (mine seems to work fine under an XMS driver like QEXT.SYS)


Note that there are many,many programs that fall into the middle group
and will NOT run under the new windows 3.0 because of the change to the spec.
They WILL run under Desqview flawlessly. I know, I do it.