Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!netcom!amdcad!brahms!phil From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Extended and Expanded memory Message-ID: <1990Aug24.061507.12312@amd.com> Date: 24 Aug 90 06:15:07 GMT References: <1990Aug22.032056.6380@amd.com> Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting) Distribution: usa Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 21 In article portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: |Seems like I'm out of luck, then. Though I'd like to point out that |DV still runs just fine on my machine with EMS 3.2; it's just that |many of DV's more powerful features aren't available. Yes, you can run DV but if you want to do real multi-tasking, as opposed to just task switching, then you either have to stick to very small programs or have real 4.0. (and I know you know this, I'm just clarifying my posting) |I wouldn't go so far as to say DV is nearly useless without full EMS Perhaps I was a little extreme. (but at least I didn't say it was completely useless!) Nearly useless was my reaction when I discovered the difference between what I had expected and what I could actually do on a 286 NEAT system. I went on to get a 386 and QEMM and was happy with that. -- Phil Ngai, phil@amd.com {uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil