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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: himem.sys
Message-ID: <1990Jul27.154843.21611@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 90 15:48:43 GMT
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Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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I sort of like Windows 3.0, but it has one terribly irritating flaw -
fatal, in fact: it won't run in extended 386 mode, the only useful way
to run it, without the himem.sys that comes with it. With himem.sys
installed, none of my other 386 programs will run.

FLAME ON!!!!!

WHY, OH WHY, Microsoft, didn't you put the himem.sys functionality
inside Windows itself, so that other programs can be run without rebooting?? 

It is NOT NICE to make programs that REQUIRE (and Windows 3.0 DOES require
it to be at all useful) that require special .sys files.


IS there a way around this? Somebody surely could make a himem.sys program
that can be turned off. Qemm for example, can be turned off. OR
make one that can be removed?


Is anyone at Microsoft listening??????????????

Doug McDonald