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From: erast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Evan R Aussenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: VP/ix and Windows 3.0. It works but ....
Keywords: vp/ix windows win3
Message-ID: <71568@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 00:05:50 GMT
References: <641@isbank.is> <27680CD6.885@marob.uucp>
Reply-To: erast1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Evan R Aussenberg)
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In article <27680CD6.885@marob.uucp> betz@marob.uucp (Tom Betz) writes:
>Quoth stb@isbank.is (stb) in <641@isbank.is>:
||OS:       Interactive Unix v2.2
||Computer: Tandon 386/33 with 8MB memory
||
||  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.
|I suspect that this, and
|not expanded memory problems, is what you are running up against.

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.

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