Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!isy!herkules.sssab.se!skujo From: skujo@sssab.se (Skule Johansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: VP/ix and Windows 3.0. It works but .... Keywords: vp/ix windows win3 Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 90 15:04:09 GMT References: <641@isbank.is> <27680CD6.885@marob.uucp> <71568@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Organization: Scandinavian System Support AB Lines: 26 erast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Evan R Aussenberg) writes: >|| >|| Is it possible to use expanded memory with Windows 3.0 in VP/ix ? >| >|Windows, and probably Excel, looks at its >|environment to decide what CPU it is running on... >|Unfortunately, VP/ix is only capable of handling 8086 opcodes, >|and if handed 286 or 386 opcodes, will crash and burn. >How can this be when Flight Simulator 4.0 runs just fine when >I pick the 286 mode option from it's opening menus. I agree about the >386 opcodes ofcourse. Btw- FS4 was being run on the VPix version >prior to the current one, which supposedly fixes Windows 3.0 problems. Try Norton's SI.EXE to get the system information under VP/ix. For my 80386 machine, in VP/ix, si reports that my processor is a 80286. And this is also the VP/ix version before the SSU.3 Update of VP/ix. Look closer on your error message when installing himem.sys: "ERROR: Can't enable A20!". Just a suggestion... Any who *knows*? ---===***> Skule -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Skule Johansen Email: skujo@herkules.sssab.se | | c/o Scandinavian System Support AB Phone: +046 - 13 - 11 16 60 | | Box 535, S-58106 LINKOPING Fax..: +046 - 13 - 11 51 93 |