Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven!adm!news From: CDCKAB%EMUVM1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu ( Karl Brendel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: What does it mean for TP 6.0 to run in extended mode? Message-ID: <25190@adm.brl.mil> Date: 4 Dec 90 14:15:11 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 38 In article 28597@usc, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: >Is it like td in needing clean extended memory to run? I do a lot of >useful things with my expanded memory; having to strip my config.sys >bare in order to run TP (like I currently do with TD) would be a >drag. > >Currently, I have a ramdisk and a disk cache on expanded memory, and >the machine starts up by loading 386Max as memory manager which takes >over all memory and displays expanded memory to applications. Am I >doing something wrong in having to completely remove all these >goodies from config.sys before running td? You can run TPCX (the 6.0 extended memory version of TPC) with QEMM as a memory manager, so I suspect you can run it with 386Max as well. I don't know about coexistence with VDISK in extended memory, but I suspect it does ok there, too. You can run straight TD with QEMM as well. It's TD386 that can't get along with memory managers. (Probably TD286 can't, either.) If you're cleaning house so you can run plain TD, itmay be a waste of time. I regularly run TD with my "normal" configuration, which is full of drivers and TSRs. The only thing I have to change is to turn off the use of video memory as normal memory--TD locks up if I forget to do that. I only throw out QEMM when I need to run TD386 for some reason. (In my experience, "normal" debugging doesn't benefit from TD386 unless there's an available memory shortage.) Oh--I routinely load TDH386.SYS into high memory under QEMM. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Karl Brendel Centers for Disease Control | | Internet: CDCKAB@EMUVM1.BITNET Epidemiology Program Office | | Bitnet: CDCKAB@EMUVM1 Atlanta, GA, USA | | ILink/RIME: KARL BRENDEL phone 404/639-2709 | | CIS : 73307,3101 fts 236-2709 | | GEnie: K.BRENDEL Home of Epi Info 5.0 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com