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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: QEMM386/Windows config question
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Date: 15 Aug 90 03:09:59 GMT
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In article <351@news.nd.edu> laughner@news.nd.edu (Tom laughner) writes:
|Our next stage of testing is on networks.  We run Vines and Netware
|here.  So far we haven't had any problems with Netware 2.15C running
|applications like WordPerfect, dBase, or Lotus.  We have some
|applications that are very memory intensive that we haven't tested yet.
|We haven't done any testing on Banyan, yet.  Vines is so much more
|memory intensive, that if we don't have any problems on Vines, we're
|set.  According to Microsoft, though, we shouldn't have any problems
|(notice we're testing their claims, first, BEFORE we implement...).

The question is not whether or not networks will work in Enhanced mode,
the question is how much free memory does a DOS app get after you
load a big network driver in config.sys? Before Win3, products
like QEMM and 386Max could let you load a network driver in "high DOS"
memory and still have over 600K free. Now, even the promised version of
QEMM only works in STANDARD mode and if you want to run Enhanced, that
network driver has to sit in your 640K. (I think, please correct me
if I'm wrong.) 640K is no problem for a Win3 app since it can use
extended memory but a DOS app is presumably still limited to 640K.

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